A Lively Afterlife and Beyond : The Soul in Plato, Homer, and the Orphica

The NeoPlatonist Olympiodorus claims that “Plato borrows everywhere from Orpheus”, but many of the afterlife ideas which Plato is supposed to have drawn from “Orphism” come not from the Orphica, but from the broader mythological tradition. Even those elements which Plato did draw from the Orphica or...

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Main Author: Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Société d’Études Platoniciennes 2014-12-01
Series:Études Platoniciennes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/etudesplatoniciennes/517