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Fragments of Numenius of Apamea

Author : Robert Petty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898910527
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Numenius of Apamea written by Robert Petty and published by . This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numenius of Apamea was, according to John Dillon, the most fascinating figure in second-century philosophy and an important forerunner of what is commonly known as neoplatonism - so much so that at one point Plotinus was accused of merely appropriating Numenius' ideas. Unfortunately none of his works survive intact, so his full influence upon the development of Platonism must remain largely a matter of conjecture. Here, for the first time in English are the extant fragements of Numenius presented with a detailed commentary. The text followed here is that established by Des Places in his Bude edition. The translation includes all fragments, but the commentary deals only with those fragments which are directly related to Numenius' own philosophy"

Numenius of Apamea, the Father of Neo-Platonism

Author : Kenneth Sylvan Launfal Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Numenius of Apamea, the Father of Neo-Platonism written by Kenneth Sylvan Launfal Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Numenius of Apamea, the Father of Neo-Platonism - Works, Biography, Message, Sources, and Influence

Author : Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie
Publisher : READ BOOKS
ISBN 13 : 9781409765639
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Numenius of Apamea, the Father of Neo-Platonism - Works, Biography, Message, Sources, and Influence written by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Greek Philosophy

Author : Cornelia J. de Vogel
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Philosophy written by Cornelia J. de Vogel and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1967 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theurgy: Theory and Practice

Author : P. D. Newman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1644118378
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Theurgy: Theory and Practice written by P. D. Newman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connects the magical practice of theurgy to the time of Homer • Explores the many theurgic themes and events in the Odyssey and the Iliad • Analyzes the writings of Neoplatonists Porphyry and Proclus, showing how both describe the technical ritual praxis of theurgy in Homeric terms • Examines the methods of telestikē, a form of theurgic statue animation and technique to divinize the soul, and how theurgy is akin to shamanic soul flight First defined by the second century Chaldean Oracles, theurgy is an ancient magic practice whereby practitioners divinized the soul and achieved mystical union with a deity, the Demiurge, or the One. In this detailed study, P. D. Newman pushes the roots of theurgy all the way back before the time of Homer. He shows how the Chaldean Oracles were not only written in Homeric Greek but also in dactylic hexameter, the same meter as the epics of Homer. Linking the Greek shamanic practices of the late Archaic period with the theurgic rites of late antiquity, the author explains how both anabasis, soul ascent, and katabasis, soul descent, can be considered varieties of shamanic soul flight and how these practices existed in ancient Greek culture prior to the influx of shamanic influence from Thrace and the Hyperborean North. The author explores the many theurgic themes and symbolic events in the Odyssey and the Iliad, including the famous journey of Odysseus to Hades and the incident of the funeral pyre of Patroclus. He presents a close analysis of On the Cave of the Nymphs, Porphyry’s commentary on Homer’s Odyssey, as well as a detailed look at Proclus’s symbolic reading of Homer’s Iliad, showing how both of these Neoplatonists describe the philosophical theory and the technical ritual praxis of theurgy. Using the Chaldean Oracles as a case study, Newman examines in detail the methods of telestikē, a form of theurgic statue animation, linking this practice to ancient Egyptian and Greek traditions as well as theurgic techniques to divinize the soul. Revealing how the theurgic arts are far older than the second century, Newman’s study not only examines the philosophical theory of theurgy but also the actual ritual practices of the theurgists, as described in their own words.

Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250

Author : George Boys-Stones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108229484
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250 written by George Boys-Stones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Middle' Platonism has some claim to be the single most influential philosophical movement of the last two thousand years, as the common background to 'Neoplatonism' and the early development of Christian theology. This book breaks with the tradition of considering it primarily in terms of its sources, instead putting its contemporary philosophical engagements front and centre to reconstruct its philosophical motivations and activity across the full range of its interests. The volume explores the ideas at the heart of Platonist philosophy in this period and includes a comprehensive selection of primary sources, a significant number of which appear in English translation for the first time, along with dedicated guides to the questions that have been, and might be, asked about the movement. The result is a tool intended to help bring the study of Middle Platonism into mainstream discussions of ancient philosophy.

Measuring Heaven

Author : Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727311
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Measuring Heaven written by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving fragments of information about Pythagoras (born ca. 570 BCE) gave rise to a growing set of legends about this famous sage and his followers, whose reputations throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages have never before been studied systematically. This book is the first to examine the unified concepts of harmony, proportion, form, and order that were attributed to Pythagoras in the millennium after his death and the important developments to which they led in art, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, music, medicine, morals, religion, law, alchemy, and the occult sciences. In this profusely illustrated book, Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier sets out the panorama of Pythagoras's influence and that of Christian and Jewish thinkers who followed his ideas in the Greek, Roman, early Christian, and medieval worlds. In illuminating this tradition of thought, Joost-Gaugier shows how the influence of Pythagoreanism was far broader than is usually realized, and that it affected the development of ancient and medieval art and architecture from Greek and Roman temples to Gothic cathedrals.Joost-Gaugier demonstrates that Pythagoreanism—centered on the dim memory of a single person that endured for centuries and grew ever-greater—inspired a new language for artists and architects, enabling them to be "modern."

Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind

Author : Max J. Lee
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161496604
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind written by Max J. Lee and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Max J. Lee examines the philosophies of Platonism and Stoicism during the Greco-Roman era and their rivals including Diaspora Judaism and Pauline Christianity on how to transform a person's character from vice to virtue. He describes each philosophical school's respective teachings on diverse moral topoi such as emotional control, ethical action and habit, character formation, training, mentorship, and deity." --provided by publisher

Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004289542
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike the Phaedo itself, its reception in Antiquity remains little studied. By examining the extant commentaries, their sources, and the dialogue’s presence in the reflections of ancient thinkers both inside and outside the Platonic tradition, this volume aims to reconstruct its ancient history.

The Unknown God

Author : Deirdre Carabine
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725232723
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Unknown God written by Deirdre Carabine and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book contains a careful, thorough, and where necessary skeptical as regards doubtful evidence (especially in the case of Plato and the Old Academy) of the beginnings in European thought of the negative or apophatic way of thinking and its relations to more positive or kataphatic ways of thinking about God. One of its greatest strengths, perhaps the greatest, is that the author makes clear that none of the persons concerned, Hellenic, Jewish or Christian, was engaged in the pursuit of a philosophical abstraction, or the heaping of rhetorical superlatives on God. They were rather concerned to present the origin of the universe as an intimately present living reality which infinitely transcends our thought and speech. This, combined with careful attention to the varieties of negative theology and its relations with positive, and the particular difficulties experienced by the members of the various traditions involved, makes the book the best introduction to the negative theology available." -A. H. Armstrong, Emeritus Professor of Greek, University of Liverpool, England. Emeritus Professor of Classics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Senior Fellow of the British Academy.

Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs in its Intellectual Context

Author : K. Nilüfer Akçay
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004408274
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs in its Intellectual Context written by K. Nilüfer Akçay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph, exclusively dedicated to the analysis of Porphyry’s On the Cave of Nymphs, provides his philosophical thoughts on the material world, relationship between soul and body and the salvation of the soul through the doctrines of Plato and Plotinus.

The Neoplatonic Socrates

Author : Danielle A. Layne
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246292
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Neoplatonic Socrates written by Danielle A. Layne and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that would surprise many of his contemporaries, who excoriated the philosopher for corrupting youth. The problem of who Socrates "really" was—the true history of his activities and beliefs—has long been thought insoluble, and most recent Socratic studies have instead focused on reconstructing his legacy and tracing his ideas through other philosophical traditions. But this scholarship has neglected to examine closely a period of philosophy that has much to reveal about what Socrates stood for and how he taught: the Neoplatonic tradition of the first six centuries C.E., which at times decried or denied his importance yet relied on his methods. In The Neoplatonic Socrates, leading scholars in classics and philosophy address this gap by examining Neoplatonic attitudes toward the Socratic method, Socratic love, Socrates's divine mission and moral example, and the much-debated issue of moral rectitude. Collectively, they demonstrate the importance of Socrates for the majority of Neoplatonists, a point that has often been questioned owing to the comparative neglect of surviving commentaries on the Alcibiades, Gorgias, Phaedo, and Phaedrus, in favor of dialogues dealing explicitly with metaphysical issues. Supplemented with a contextualizing introduction and a substantial appendix detailing where evidence for Socrates can be found in the extant literature, The Neoplatonic Socrates makes a clear case for the significant place Socrates held in the education and philosophy of late antiquity. Contributors: Crystal Addey, James M. Ambury, John F. Finamore, Michael Griffin, Marilynn Lawrence, Danielle A. Layne, Christina-Panagiota Manolea, François Renaud, Geert Roskam, Harold Tarrant.

The Archaeology of Late Antique 'Paganism'

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004210393
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Late Antique 'Paganism' written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the archaeology of 'paganism' in late antiquity. Papers explore the end of the temples, the nature of ritual deposits, the fate of religious statues and the iconography in material culutre. These are complemented by two extensive bibliographic essays.

Homer the Theologian

Author : Robert Lamberton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520909205
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Homer the Theologian written by Robert Lamberton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-04-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alter permanently the nature of European epic. The Neoplatonist reading was to be decisive in the birth of allegorical epic in late antiquity and forms the background for the next major extension of the epic tradition found in Dante.

Julian's Gods

Author : Rowland B. E. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134677464
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Julian's Gods written by Rowland B. E. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian's brief reign (360-363 AD) had a profound impact on his contemporaries, as he worked fervently for a pagan restoration in the Roman Empire, which was rapidly becoming Christian. Julian's Gods focuses on the cultural mentality of `the last pagan Emperor' by examining a wide variety of his own writings. The surviving speeches and treatises, satires and letters offer a rare insight into the personal attitudes and motivations of a remarkable Emperor. They show Julian as a highly educated man, an avid student of Greek philosophy, and a talented author in his own right. This elegant and closely-argued study will deepen understanding not only of Julian, but of the context of fourth century Neoplatonism.

Hellenic Tantra

Author : Gregory Shaw
Publisher : Angelico Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Hellenic Tantra written by Gregory Shaw and published by Angelico Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenic Tantra argues that scholarship on later Platonism has been misled by a dualist worldview. The theurgic Platonists in the school of Iamblichus (4th century CE) did not ascend out of their bodies to be united with the gods—as is the common belief—but allowed the gods to descend into their bodies. By comparing embodied deification in theurgy to Tantric traditions of embodied deification, Gregory Shaw allows us to understand the power and charisma of the last Platonic teachers. Hellenic Tantra reveals a living Platonism that has been hidden from us.

Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism

Author : Dr Crystal Addey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409451526
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism written by Dr Crystal Addey and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the extensive links between oracles and philosophy in Late Antiquity, particularly focusing on the roles of oracles and other forms of divination in third and fourth century CE Neoplatonism. Examining some of the most significant debates between pagan philosophers and Christian intellectuals on the nature of oracles as a central yet contested element of religious tradition, Addey focuses particularly on Porphyry's Philosophy from Oracles and Iamblichus' De Mysteriis.