It appears to me here that Sallustius is espousing philosophy in an extreme sense, renouncing the irrational body in order to—assuming I am not being presumptuous—approach and hopefully attain the immortality of the rational soul?
Or is he rather assuming that a soul that is derived from the secondary Gods, being of a different class, to never be able to attain to the status of those that are derived from the primary Gods? (But what, then, do we make of all those myths where Zeus confers immortality upon those He favors?)
Or am I reading way too much into this and Sallustius is only defining an ontology that has nothing at all to do with how one ought to behave?
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Date: 2021-12-22 02:43 pm (UTC)Or is he rather assuming that a soul that is derived from the secondary Gods, being of a different class, to never be able to attain to the status of those that are derived from the primary Gods? (But what, then, do we make of all those myths where Zeus confers immortality upon those He favors?)
Or am I reading way too much into this and Sallustius is only defining an ontology that has nothing at all to do with how one ought to behave?