Porphyry, the Philosopher, to Marcella
Author : Porphyry
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
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Author : Porphyry
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
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Author : Porphyry
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Ethics
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Author : Porphyry
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781555401399
Author : Porphyry
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
With an introduction to the life of Porphyry and an overview of Neoplatonic thought by David Fideler.
Author : Porphyry
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Page : 90 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Ethics
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Author : K. Nilüfer Akçay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004408274
Neoplatonic allegorical interpretation expounds how literary texts present philosophical ideas in an enigmatic and coded form, offering an alternative path to the divine truths. The Neoplatonist Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs is one of the most significant allegorical interpretation handed down to us from Antiquity. This monograph, exclusively dedicated to the analysis of On the Cave of Nymphs, demonstrates that Porphyry interprets Homer’s verse from Odyssey 13.102-112 to convey his philosophical thoughts, particularly on the material world, relationship between soul and body and the salvation of the soul through the doctrines of Plato and Plotinus. The Homeric cave of the nymphs with two gates is a station where the souls descend into genesis and ascend to the intelligible realm. Porphyry associates Odysseus’ long wanderings with the journey of the soul and its salvation from the irrational to rational through escape from all toils of the material world.
Author : Porphyry
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Caves in literature
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Author : Philostratus (the Athenian)
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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Classical literature
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PHILOSTRATUS AND EUNAPIUS. (a) Of the distinguished Lemnian family of Philostrati, Flavius Philostratus, 'the Athenian', was a Greek sophist (professor), c. A.D. 170-205, who studied at Athens and later lived in Rome. He was author of the admirable Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Loeb Nos. 16 and 17) and Lives of the Sophists (which are really impressions of investigators alert but less fond of scientific method and discovery than of stylish presentation or things known), one part concerning some older, the other some later 'provessors'. Other extant works of this Philostratus are Letters and Gymnasticus, but the Heroicus or Heroica is apparently by another Philostratus, and the Eikones (Imagines, skilful descriptions of pictures, Loeb No. 256) were probably by two Philostrati, on being the son of Nervianus and born c. A.D. 190, the other his grandson who wrote c. AD. 300. (b) The Greek Sophist and historian Eunapius was born at Sardis in A.D. 347, but went to Athens to study and lived much of his life there teaching rhetoric and possibly medicine. He was initiated into the 'mysteries' and was hostile to Christians. Lost is his historical work (covering the years A.D. 270-404) but for excerpts and the use of it made by Zosimmus, but we have his Lives of Philosophers and Sophists mainly contemporary whth himself. Eunapius is our only source of our knowledge of Neo-Platonism in the latter part of the fourth century A.D.
Author : Edward Craig
Publisher :
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415187121
Volume seven of a ten volume set which provides full and detailed coverage of all aspects of philosophy, including information on how philosophy is practiced in different countries, who the most influential philosophers were, and what the basic concepts are.
Author : Delacy O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317847482
First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements -how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world, later passing on to medieval Europe. Starting with the rise of Hellenism in Asia in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, O'Leary deals with the Greek legacy of science, philosophy, mathematics and medicine and follows it as it travels across the Near East propelled by religion, trade and conquest. Dealing in depth with Christianity as a Hellenizing force, the influence of the Nestorians and the Monophysites; Indian influences by land and sea and the rise of Buddhism, O'Leary then focuses on the development of science during the Baghdad Khalifate, the translation of Greek scientific material into Arabic, and the effect for all those interested in the history of medicine and science, and of historical geography as well as the history of the Arab world.