Cosmic and Meta-Cosmic Theology in Aristotle's Lost Dialogues

Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Chapter One: A 'Dreaming Kronos' in a lost work by Aristotle -- Chapter Two: The Multiformity of the mythical tradition about Kronos -- Chapter Three: J. H. Waszink on the figure of the 'Dreaming Kronos' -- Chapter Four: Kronos as an Oracular God in Plutarch's De facie in orbe lunae -- Chapter Five: A Dreaming or Sleeping God Kronos in the Corpus Hermeticum and other Hellenistic texts -- Chapter Six: Further analysis of the myth in Plutarch, De facie in orbe lunae -- Chapter Seven: The origin of the views voiced in the De facie -- Chapter Eight: Aristotelian elements in the myth of Plutarch's De facie -- Chapter Nine: Aristotle's 'Kronology': an attempt at Reconstruction -- Chapter Ten: The Relation between Aristotle's lost writings and the surviving Corpus Aristotelicum -- Chapter Eleven: Exoterikoi Logoi and Enkyklioi Logoi in the Corpus Aristotelicum and the origin of the idea of the Enkyklios Paideia -- Chapter Twelve: Manteia in Aristotle, De Caelo 2.1 -- Chapter Thirteen: Aristotle on 'People in a cave' De Philosophia Fr.l3A Ross -- Chapter Fourteen: A Double Theology in Aristotle De Philosophia Fr.26 Ross -- Chapter Fifteen: Is the 'Greek King' in Aristotle, Eudemus Fr.11 (Ross) Endymion of Elis? -- Bibliography -- Indices.