Philo of Alexandria and the Timaeus of Plato
Author : Douwe (David) Runia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004320660
Philo of Alexandria and The "Timaeus" of Plato
Author : David T. Runia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004074774
Book Description
Philo of Alexandria and the Timaeus of Plato
Author : Douwe Theunis Runia
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Book Description
Philo of Alexandria
Author : Maren Niehoff
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 030017523X
Book Description
This first biography of Philo of Alexandria, one of antiquity's most prolific yet enigmatic authors, traces his intellectual development from Bible interpreter to diplomat in Rome
What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem?
Author : Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780472108077
Book Description
An important contribution to early Christian studies
On Plato’s Timaeus
Author : Calcidius
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674599179
Book Description
In the 4th century CE, Calcidius translated into Latin an important section of Plato’s Timaeus, complemented by commentary and organized into coordinated parts. Its organization subsequently informed the sense of macrocosm and microcosm—of the world and our place in it—which is prevalent in western European thought in the Middle Ages.
Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition
Author : Christina Hoenig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108415806
Book Description
The book explores the development of Platonic philosophy by Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. Discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how they contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism.
Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004436383
Book Description
This volume offers a collection of papers about the notions of fate, providence, and free will, as developed and debated in philosophy and religion in the early Imperial age (ca. 31 BCE-250 CE).
Philo of Alexandria: On the Contemplative Life
Author : Joan E. Taylor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004439234
Book Description
De Vita Contemplativa is known for its depiction of a philosophical group of Jewish men and women known as the ‘Therapeutae’. This commentary sets the treatise in its historical context and explores Philo’s aims in depicting them as he did.
From Stoicism to Platonism
Author : Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107166195
Book Description
This book explores the process during 100 BCE-100 CE by which dualistic Platonism became the reigning school in philosophy.
