Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 12 (4):668-668 (1959)
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Miss Weil's perception is acute and refreshing, but also fanciful and undisciplined. Her premonitions of Christianity in the Iliad, Antigone, the Prometheus myth and Plato's Timaeus and Symposium are based on allegorical interpretations.--L. S. F.

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