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1 online resource (386 pages) |
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Greek Culture in the Roman World |
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Greek culture in the Roman world.
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Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Abbreviations of Porphyry's works (used in the notes); Chapter 1 At the limits of Hellenism; Hellenism in the third century AD; Porphyry as translator; Porphyry's life and works; Philosophy in fragments: Porphyry's works; Philosophy from Oracles; On the Return of the Soul; On Images; On the Styx; On Free Will; Against Nemertius; Philosophic History; Letter to Anebo; Commentary on the Timaeus; Against the Christians; Conclusion; Part I A world full of gods; Chapter 2 Porphyry's taxonomy of the divine; Singularity and divinity; Plurality and divinity |
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Visible godsGods and oracles; Philosophy and daemonology; Porphyry's daemons; Daemons and/as gods; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Salvation, translation, and the limits of cult; Salvation, or the path to the gods; The fall of the soul; Astrology and divination; Approaching the divine; On Abstinence; Philosophy from Oracles; Sacrifice in other works; The Letter to Marcella; Letter to Anebo; Forgetting the body: the ascent of the soul; Conclusion; Chapter 4 The master reader; Platonic pedagogies; Porphyry the pedagogue; The didactics of dialectic; Teaching texts; Oracular and iconographic pedagogies |
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On ImagesPhilosophy from Oracles; Pedagogy and privilege: the hierarchy of reading; Conclusion; Part II A world full of nations; Chapter 5 Knowledge and nations; Racial thinking in Porphyry; Ethnic argumentation in a philosophical corpus; Ethnic exempla; Ethnographic doxographies; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Ethnic particularism and the limits of Hellenism; Barbarian wisdom and the Interpretatio Graeca; Against the Greeks: Phoenicians and the Interpretatio Graeca; Philo of Byblos; Maximus of Tyre; Porphyry and the Greeks; Conclusion; Chapter 7 The way home; Nation by nation; Egyptians; Persians |
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ChaldeansSyrians and Phoenicians; Jews; Indians; Ethnic particularism under empire; Images of the Romans; "What is that to us?" Civic obligation in Porphyry; Porphyry the cosmopolitan; Conclusion; Epilogue Translation after Porphyry; Appendix 1 Annotated table of select fragments; 1. Commentary on Platos Republic; 2. Philosophic History; 3. On Free Will; 4. On the [inscription "Know Thyself"; 5. Against Nemertius; 6. On the Return of the Soul; 7. On the Philosophy from Oracles; Book 1; Preface (frs. 303-306); On the gods (307F-313F); On sacrifice (314F-315F); On images (316F-321F) |
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On the oracles (322F)On barbarian wisdom (323F-324F); Book 2; On the highest God (325F); On daemons (326F-329F); On astrology (330F-342F); Book 3; On Christians and Hebrews (343F-346F); On binding the gods (347F-350F); 8. On Images; 9. On the Writings of Julian the Chaldean; 9. On the Styx; 10. Commentary on the Timaeus; Book 1; Book 2; Appendix 2 Translation of select fragments; 1 On the Styx, fr. 376 Smith (Stobaeus 1.3.56)1; 2. On the Styx, fr. 377 Smith (= Stobaeus 1.49.53); 3. On the Styx, fr. 378 Smith (= Stobaeus 1.49.54) |
| Summary |
Examines Porphyry of Tyre's critical engagement with Hellenism in late antiquity, emphasizing philosophical translation as the key to his thought |
| Notes |
4. Philosophy from Oracles, fr. 323 Smith (= Eusebius PE 9.10.1-2) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305.
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Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305 |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Hellenisme.
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Godsdienst.
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Identiteit.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781107345256 |
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1107345251 |
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1107347750 |
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9781107347755 |
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9780511998546 |
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0511998546 |
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9781107341500 |
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1107341507 |
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9781299403321 |
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1299403328 |
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