| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 581 pages) |
| Series |
Complete Cambridge histories online. Philosophy |
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Complete Cambridge histories online. Philosophy
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| Contents |
General introduction / Lloyd P. Gerson -- I Philosophy in the later Roman Empire -- The late Roman Empire from the Antonines to Constantine / Elizabeth Depalma Digeser -- The transmission of ancient wisdom: texts, doxographies, libraries / Gábor Betegh -- Cicero and the New Academy / Carlos Lévy -- Platonism before Plotinus / Harold Tarrant -- The Second Sophistic / Ryan Fowler -- Numenius of Apamea / Mark Edwards -- Stoicism / Brad Inwood -- Peripatetics / Robert W. Sharples -- The Chaldaean Oracles / John F. Finamore and Sarah Iles Johnston -- Gnosticism / Edward Moore and John D. Turner -- Ptolemy / Jacqueline Feke and Alexander Jones -- Galen / R.J. Hankinson -- II The first encounter of Judaism and Christianity with ancient Greek philosophy -- Philo of Alexandria / David Winston -- Justin Martyr / Denis Minns -- Clement of Alexandria / Catherine Osborne -- Origen / Emanuela Prinzivalli -- III Plotinus and the new Platonism -- Plotinus / Dominic J. O'Meara -- Porphyry and his school / Andrew Smith -- Iamblichus of Chalcis and his school / John Dillon -- IV Philosophy in the age of Constantine -- Philosophy in a Christian empire: from the great persecution to Theodosius I / Elizabeth Depalma Digeser -- Themistius / Inna Kupreeva -- The Alexandrian school. Theon of Alexandria and Hypatia / Alain Bernard -- Hierocles of Alexandria / Hermann Schibli -- V The second encounter of Christianity with ancient Greek philosophy -- Basil of Caesarea / Lewis Ayres and Andrew Radde-Gallwitz -- Gregory of Nyssa / Anthony Meredith -- Gregory of Nazianzus / John A. McGuckin -- Calcidius / Gretchen Reydams-Schils -- Nemesius of Emesa / Beatrice Motta -- Synesius of Cyrene / Jay Bregman -- Marius Victorinus / Stephen A. Cooper -- Augustine / Giovanni Catapano |
| Summary |
This 2 volume set comprises over 40 specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200-800 CE. The contributors examine philosophy as it entered literature, science and religion, and offer new and extensive assessments of philosophers who until recently have been mostly ignored |
| Notes |
Title from home page (viewed June 23, 2011) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Medieval -- History
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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Philosophy, Ancient
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Philosophy, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gerson, Lloyd P
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| ISBN |
9781139095457 |
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1139095455 |
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9781139095457 |
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9781107577046 |
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1107577047 |
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