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Diogenes of Babylon, On Minerva
On Minerva
also: de Minerva
A work of the Stoic Diogenes of Babylon. Cicero says it transfers the birth of Jupiter and the rise of the virgin (Minerva) from fable to natural philosophy.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §1.41 the book entitled \textit{On Minerva}
A work of the Stoic Diogenes of Babylon allegorizing the myth of Minerva's birth from the head of Jupiter as a fact of natural philosophy (the virgin springing from the mind/ether).