| Description |
1 online resource (x, 241 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford studies in late antiquity |
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Oxford studies in late antiquity.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Late-antique Gaza : teachers, monks and philosophers -- Gazan culture performed and transformed by Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius -- Christian and neoplatonic creations -- Procopius on creation and eternity -- Aeneas and Zacharias on creation and eternity -- Conclusions : creation creating cultures |
| Summary |
Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius each contributed to debates about the creation and eternity of the world, which ran from the Neoplatonist Proclus into the sixth-century disputes between Philoponus, Simplicius and Cosmas Indicopleustes. The Gazan contribution is significant in its own right, highlighting distinctive aspects of late-antique Christianity, and it throws the later philosophical debates into sharper relief. Focusing on the creation debates also allows for exploration of the local cultures that constituted Gazan society in the late-fifth and early-sixth centuries. Explaining the Cosmos further explores cultural dynamics in the Gazan schools and monasteries and the wider cultural history of the city. The Gazans adapt and transform aspects of Classical and Neoplatonic culture while rejecting Neoplatonic religious claims. The study also analyses the Gazans' intellectual contributions in the context of Neoplatonism and early Christianity. The Gaza which emerges from this study is a set of cultures in transition, mutually constituting and transforming each other through a fugal pattern of exchange, adaptation, conflict and collaboration"-- Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 6, 2014) |
| Subject |
Aeneas, of Gaza, active 5th century.
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Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene.
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Procopius.
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| SUBJECT |
Aeneas, of Gaza, active 5th century fast |
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Procopius fast |
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Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene fast |
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Creation -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
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Intellectual life
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| SUBJECT |
Gaza -- Intellectual life
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| Subject |
Gaza Strip -- Gaza
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199354986 |
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0199354987 |
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