Richard Janko, “The Derveni Papyrus” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aristotle's Theology of the Athenians
In the generation after socrates, people start to say, well, you can't actually even rely on ale oracal interpretations. The solution is to throw out all of poetry, all the traditional beliefs. And so that was the next step that they took. Aprote separate and this. We don't have that part of what he thought, but he will have offered some explanation for these completely unacceptable myths"
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