Dangerous Liaisons: Plutarch's Appropriation of the Stoic Biological Model for Divine Causation

sponsorship: Special thanks are due to Federico Petrucci and Mauro Bonazzi for discussing the main argument with me and for their insightful and careful suggestions. I also wish to thank the anonymous reviewer for their sharp comments and for encouraging me to further develop certain aspects of the argument; their feedback has significantly improved the paper. Earlier versions of this paper were presented in Munich, Milan and Leuven; I am grateful to the participants, particularly to Jan Opsomer, for their valuable feedback and for the stimulating discussions. This article was written with the support of the PRIN project 2022BBPB8N "Ancient Science, Ancient Philosophy" and the FWO grant 1295025N. (FWO grant|1295025N, PRIN project "Ancient Science, Ancient Philosophy"|2022BBPB8N)