... plausibility Summary of book Asclepiades of Myrlea eikos mythos fables fiction history mythos mythoi Plato philosopher Plutarch Quintilian Theon Aelius evangelists anonymity of gospels historia appearance of Logos plasma Celsus Jesus Origen scriptural myths storytelling slights against...

... for polymorphous influence based on dynamic cultural interaction. Also treated is the notion of gospel genre, the identity of the evangelists, the themes of their gospels, and brief biographies of five contemporary Greco-Roman historians who serve as major sources of data: Diodorus of Sicily, Plutarch, Suetonius...

.... ascent narratives Asclepius heaven ascent to Heracles heroes Jesus Justin Martyr plausibility Romulus Cicero cloud borne ascent motif of Josephus Luke gospel of Moses resurrection Plutarch Rome Varro alternative reports historiographical technique of ascent possibility of eyewitnesses...

...This chapter compares the divine conception of Jesus in the gospel of Luke with divine conception in the historical writings of Plutarch. But authors who were contemporaries reject the language of divine-human sex as crude. They support a more subtle, though still physical form of divinely caused...