Abstract
In Late Antiquity, from the 2nd to the 4th century AD, pagan auctores inspired by Plato's
philosophy and Greek-Roman culture, even if belonging to eastern civilization, established
a frame of considerations on the value, if not on the ‘truth’, of the "barbaric philosophies"
in relation to the Greek-roman culture and to its philosophical and religious acquisitions. A
comparative study of their positions allows to enlighten, along with the aspects of
continuity and innovation that characterize the different stages of this thematic area, a
dialectic between the legitimacy of the plurality of ethnic and national circum-
Mediterranean religious traditions, including the Jewish ones on one hand, and, on the other
hand, to overcome the tension in the direction of the same, still problematic, universal
perspective.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] 'The way' or 'the ways'? Between national identities and universalistic perspectives in late ancient paganism |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Religion in the History of European Culture. Proceedings of the 9th EASR Annual Conference and IAHR Special Conference, 14-17 September 2009, Messina (Italy) |
Editor | Giulia Sfameni Gasparro, Mariangela Monaca, Augusto Cosentino |
Pagine | 889-910 |
Numero di pagine | 22 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2013 |
Keywords
- Late Antiquity
- Tarda Antichità