Chapter There's Always the Sun : Metaphysics and Antiquarianism in Macrobius

The present paper asks how Macrobius thinks his extensive allegories of statues of the gods and other elements of traditional religion are possible. He can be shown to espouse a Neoplatonic theory of images. This entails that truthful images are only possible of the Soul and the lower levels of the...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Nuffelen, Peter (auth)
Other Authors: Hömke, Nicola (Editor), Franco Chiai, Gian (Editor), Jenik, Antonia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2016
Subjects:
Online Access:Get fulltext