Religion and identity in Porphyry of Tyre : the limits of Hellenism in late antiquity /
Porphyry, a native of Phoenicia educated in Athens and Rome during the third century AD, was one of the most important Platonic philosophers of his age. In this book, Professor Johnson rejects the prevailing modern approach to his thought, which has posited an early stage dominated by 'Oriental...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Greek culture in the Roman world.
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Table of Contents:
- At the limits of Hellenism: an introduction
- A World Full of Gods : Porphyry the Theologian
- Porphyry's taxonomy of the divine
- Salvation, translation, and the limits of cult
- The master reader: contexts of translation
- A World Full of Nations: Porphyry the Ethnographer
- Knowledge and nations: Porphyry's ethnic argumentation
- Ethnic particularism and the limits of Hellenism
- The way home: transcending particularism.