Titlebook: Socrates and Diotima; Sexuality, Religion, Andrea Nye Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015 antiquity.cultur

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The Highest Onewhere waves of emigration resulted in a syncretic mingling, mixing, and merging of religious traditions.. An imported deity might pair with a local deity as Apollo did with the earth goddess Rhea at Delphi. Family relations might be established between divinities in mythical “pantheons” or “theogoni

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Social Virtueutility or reason. Prophecy, prayers, sacred images, and ritual come under the control of predatory priesthoods, temple elites, and corrupt ecclesiastic institutions. Privilege masquerades as authority. Without eros and the ability to see and respond to what is ugly and beautiful in persons and in h

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The Spirit at the Center of the Worldary Empedocles, a practical man who participated in civic affairs and practiced medicine, insisted that, regardless of what logicians might claim, change and diversity are experiential facts. Appearances can deceive, but when all one’s senses are consulted—sight, hearing, testimony, touch, and taste

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The Highest One and intelligence. It is the mutual desire that creates new forms of being. It is the attraction that leads to regeneration and rebirth and keeps the physical and social worlds in motion. Inanna in Sumer, Ishtar in Syria, Asherah in Canaan, Dionysus and Adonis in Greece, Cybele in Rome—all were diff

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Demonizing the Daemonictical principles. Then, being immortal himself, he must delegate to helpers or “demigods” the task of building to his specifications the mortal bodies that will clothe the bits of diluted soul stuff he donates for that purpose. Suddenly, in a narrative moment fateful for the future of monotheist pol

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Saint Augustine and Concupiscence of the Flesh completely successful. In his ., he traced every agonizing humiliating step and misstep of the drama in colorful self-absorbed prose. As a child he was subjected to the demanding Christianity of his mother Monica, but her faith in the love of Christ and insistence on moral rectitude had little powe