Retrospect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23743477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yulia Ustinova (0000-0001-9035-7553, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 256-262 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Caves and the ancient Greek mind (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199548569.003.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W4245346970 |
| ISBN | 9780199548569 |
| Language | EN |
The Retrospect draws together the major themes explored in the book, focusing on the modalities common to prophecy, early philosophy, and mystery cults. It offers new integrative interpretations of these phenomena, highlighting the role of seers and sages as intermediaries between immortals and mortals who sought superhuman knowledge in altered states of consciousness, inside caves or isolated rooms, and stressing that for the Greeks, cave experiences were a well-known way to attain ultimate truth.
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cave · Consciousness · Epistemology · Greeks · Literature · Modalities · Social science · Sociology · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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