Sophia (brief for now)

heroic ideal: to be godlike, like Achilles
    but we are mortal and weak and changing
    intellectual knowledge (Sophia) seems less mortal and weak and permanent
    against the Judeo-christian tradition: incomprehensibility of God

Theological origin:
Iliad’s Chalchas: ‘who knew the present, the past and the things to be’; the Greek prophet
Hesiod’s Muses: who know how to tell the truth and also to tell lies like the truth
    theogony as cosmogony
    becomes dedivinized in the preSocratic tradition

no enfranchised priesthood
    political dynamic of competition: agora and the meson
    G.E.R. Lloyd’s variation: adversaries and authorities