Criticism of Theogony

Jul 06, 2011 22:48

I am looking for criticisms of classical Greco-Roman theogony. Preferably from late antiquity or earlier. I recall reading such a criticism which claimed it was absurd to have a historicist view of the Theogony because it assumed the gods had physical bodies. It may have been an early Church Father, but I'm not sure ( Read more... )

myth, classics, classicist

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alasthai July 7 2011, 12:07:08 UTC
As I recall, Plutarch makes some similar comments in his biographies: see Theseus and Numa Pompilius.

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