Struck, Peter T2023-05-222023-05-222014-01-012017-12-20https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/8064Plato uses the idea of divinatory knowledge as a metaphorical descriptor for a variety of kinds of daytime, waking knowing. What unites these examples is that they all include discussion of a kind of knowing that cannot account for itself, and that is tentative, imagistic and non-discursive. These metaphorical uses can further be illuminated by his more detailed discussion of divinatory knowledge itself in Timeaus.Originally published in Archiv für Religionsgeschichte © 2014 DeGruyter (https://www.degruyter.com/).Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late AntiquityArts and HumanitiesClassical Literature and PhilologyClassicsFolkloreArticle