La divinazione come capacità noetica: Platone, Aristotele, Cratippo.

The purpose of the contribution is to rediscuss the widespread idea that in ancient thought divination is incompatible with intellection. To that end, Plato, Aristotle and Cratippus of Pergamum will be considered. In particular, Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus and Timaeus, in which the link between nous and divination, albeit not explicitly stated, is nevertheless present; Aristotle's De philosophia, in which divination is linked to noetic faculty. Finally, the theory of divination of Cratippus of Pergamum, which can be derived from Cicero's De divinatione. Plato, Aristotle and Cratippus constitute a line of thought a line of thought based on the primacy of nous as the supreme cognitive faculty  and, as a consequence, the only power capable of exerting divination.