Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Myth, Divination, and the Pre-Platonic
5. Was Homer’s Circe a Witch? 21
6. The Oracle as Intermediary 59
7. The Roots of Life and Death in the Homeric Hymns and Presocratic Philosophy 87
8. The Intelligibility of Difference: Anaxagoras’ and Lugones’ Ontologies of Separation 121
9. Platonic Transformations
10. As Much Mixture as Will Suffice 155
11. Overturning Soul-Body Dualism in Plato’s Timaeus 185
12. The Argument of Socrates’ Action in Republic V 211
13. Late Antique Destabilizations
14. Divine Mothers 235
15. Beyond Maleness and Femaleness? 263
16. Hekate and the Liminality of Souls 295
17. Christian Platonists in Support of Gender Equality 313
18. Contributors 351
19. Index 355