Alexandrian Platonist Against Dualism
Author: Pieter W Van Der Horst
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1974-06
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 900466548X
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City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria
Author: Edward J. Watts
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-09-10
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0520258169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities of Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth centuries to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity. While previous scholarship has seen Christian reactions to pagan educational culture as the product of an empire-wide process of development, Edward J. Watts crafts two narratives that reveal how differently education was shaped by the local power structures and urban contexts of each city. Touching on the careers of Herodes Atticus, Proclus, Damascius, Ammonius Saccas, Origen, Hypatia, and Olympiodorus; and events including the Herulian sack of Athens, the closing of the Athenian Neoplatonic school under Justinian, the rise of Arian Christianity, and the sack of the Serapeum, he shows that by the sixth century, Athens and Alexandria had two distinct, locally determined, approaches to pagan teaching that had their roots in the unique historical relationships between city and school.
Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham
Author: Ellen Birnbaum
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-09-07
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9004423648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this new English translation and commentary of Philo’s On the Life of Abraham Ellen Birnbaum and John Dillon show how and why this unique biography displays Philo’s philosophical, exegetical, and literary genius at its best.
Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250
Author: George Boys-Stones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-21
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 1108229484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Middle' Platonism has some claim to be the single most influential philosophical movement of the last two thousand years, as the common background to 'Neoplatonism' and the early development of Christian theology. This book breaks with the tradition of considering it primarily in terms of its sources, instead putting its contemporary philosophical engagements front and centre to reconstruct its philosophical motivations and activity across the full range of its interests. The volume explores the ideas at the heart of Platonist philosophy in this period and includes a comprehensive selection of primary sources, a significant number of which appear in English translation for the first time, along with dedicated guides to the questions that have been, and might be, asked about the movement. The result is a tool intended to help bring the study of Middle Platonism into mainstream discussions of ancient philosophy.
Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy
Author: Anthony Preus
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-02-12
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 1442246391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ancient Greeks were not only the founders of western philosophy, but the actual term "philosophy" is Greek in origin, most likely dating back to the late sixth century BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Euclid, and Thales are but a few of the better-known philosophers of ancient Greece. During the amazingly fertile period running from roughly the middle of the first millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium AD, the world saw the rise of science, numerous schools of thought, and—many believe—the birth of modern civilization. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy covers the history of Greek philosophy through a chronology, an introductory essay, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1500 cross-referenced entries on important philosophers, concepts, issues, and events. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Greek philosophy.
Hierocles of Alexandria
Author: Hermann S. Schibli
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2002-06-13
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 019158181X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive work in English on the fifth-century Neoplatonic philosopher Hierocles. It contains a survey of his life, writings, and pagan and Christian surroundings, and examines the major tenets of his thought under the rubrics of contemplative philosophy, practical philosophy (civil and telestic), and providence. Schibli situates Hierocles in the mainstream of Neoplatonism from Plotinus to Damascius. Particularly helpful is the inclusion of a modern English translation of Hierocles' Commentary on the Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans and of the remnants of his treatise On Providence. The translations are fully annotated throughout.
Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East
Author: S.N.C. Lieu
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 900429581X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of Manichaeism, the first Gnostic world religion, has made major advances in the last few decades thanks to the continuing discovery and decipherment of genuine Manichaean texts from Egypt and Central Asia. This work brings together a number of major articles by the author published between 1981 and 1992 on the history of the sect in Mesopotamia and the Roman Empire. The studies have all been up-dated in the light of newly published material.
Knowledge of god in the Graeco-Roman world
Author: Roel B. van den Broek
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-09-07
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9004296670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreliminary material /R. VAN DEN BROEK , T. BAARDA and J. MANSFELD -- IDENTIFICATION ANO SELF-IDENTIFICATION OF GODS IN CLASSICAL ANO HELLENISTIC TIMES /GERARD MUSSIES -- THE UNKNOWN GOD (ACTS 17:23) /PIETER WILLEM VAN DER HORST -- ZUR THEOLOGIE DES XENOKRATES /MATTHIAS BALTES -- NAMING AND KNOWING: THEMES IN PHILONIC THEOLOGY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE DE MUTATIONE NOMINUM /DAVID T. RUNIA -- COMPATIBLE ALTERNATIVES: MIDDLE PLATONIST THEOLOGY AND THE XENOPHANES RECEPTION /JAAP MANSFELD -- LA CONNAISSANCE DE DIEU ET LA HIÉRARCHIE DIVINE CHEZ ALBINOS /PIERLUIGI DONINI -- THE WAY OF THE MOST HIGH AND THE INJUSTICE OF GOD IN 4 EZRA /MICHAEL EDWARD STONE -- MAN'S BEHA VIOUR AND GOD'S JUSTICE IN EARLY JEWISH TRADITION. SOME OBSERVATIONS /P.W. VAN BOXEL -- GÉNÉRATIONS ANTÉDILUVIENNES ET CHUTE DES ÉONS DANS L'HERMÉTISME ET DANS LA GNOSE /JEAN-PIERRE MAHÉ -- 'IF YOU DO NOT SABBATIZE ...': THE SABBATH THE SABBATH AS GOD OR WORLD IN GNOSTIC UNDERSTANDING (EV. THOM., LOG. 27) /T. BAARDA -- EUGNOSTUS AND ARISTIDES ON THE INEFFABLE GOD /ROELOF VAN DEN BROEK -- THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IN ORIGEN /JOHN M. DILLON -- KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IN EUSEBIUS AND ATHANASIUS /CHRISTOPHER STEAD -- LES DIEUX ET LE DIVIN DANS LES MYSTÈRES DE MITHRA /ROBERT TURCAN -- LA CONCEPTION DE DIEU DANS LE MANICHÉISME /M. TARDlEU -- INDEX /R. VAN DEN BROEK , T. BAARDA and J. MANSFELD.
In Search of Truth. Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism
Author: J. van (Johannes) Oort
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 9004189971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume in honour of Prof. Dr. Johannes van Oort offers a rich variety of in-depth studies on Augustine, Manichaeism, and other Gnostic currents, thus reflecting the rich variety of the honorand’s research interests.
Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
Author: Richard T. Wallis
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780791413371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent decades our view of Gnosticism has been revolutionized by the discovery of a Coptic Gnostic library at Nag-Hammadi, Egypt. Currently, Gnosticism is seen as a phenomenon extending far beyond Christianity and displaying a strong Platonic influence. The opposition between the two systems was certainly not as sharp as Plotinus claimed. Where, why, and how the ideological lines were drawn is discussed in the light of the new historical evidence.
