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Resumen El presente artículo contiene breves observaciones con respecto a la mitología como elemento recurrente en la Antigüedad Clásica. Además de suministrar realidades y acontecimientos inauditos, la paradoxografía también nos ofrece episodios de apariciones fantasmagóricas. Una mirada más atenta sobre Mirabilia 1-3, de Flegón, provee información relativa a fenómenos sobrenaturales en el mundo griego antiguo. Palabras clave: muerte; resurrección; fantasma; aparición; terror; miedo Abstract This paper contains summarized observations regarding mythology as a recurring presence in Classical Antiquity. Besides the accumulation of realities and events never heard of, paradoxography also presents episodes of phantasmagoric apparitions. A closer examination of Phlegon’s Mirabilia 1-3 provides us with information about supernatural phenomena in the Ancient Greek world. Keywords: death; ressurrection; phantom; apparition; terror; fear

This paper deals with the meaning of phantasia in Plato's dialogues, taking into account the dialectical contexts in which different representations and opinions are examined and submitted to refutation: the gods' apparitions as pictured by the poets are not a good basis for the citizens' paideia (Republic), nor are the apparitions in perception solid knowledge (Theaetetus); the verbal images produced by the sophists are unsound (Sophist) and should, like the images projected on the liver (Timaeus), be the object of critical analysis and interpretation. Nevertheless, it is argued that, in the dialogues as a whole, phantasia is not, a priori, false.