Plato and Divination
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Plato uses the idea of divinatory knowledge as a metaphorical descriptor for a variety of kinds of daytime, waking knowing. What unites these examples is that they all include discussion of a kind of knowing that cannot account for itself, and that is tentative, imagistic and non-discursive. These metaphorical uses can further be illuminated by his more detailed discussion of divinatory knowledge itself in Timeaus. Disciplines Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity | Arts and Humanities | Classical Literature and Philology | Classics | Folklore This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/180
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