Aaron P. Johnson

Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the critical engagement of Porphyry of Tyre with the processes of Hellenism in late antiquity. Based on a careful treatment of all the relevant remains of Porphyry's work, the book argues for a complex unity of thought in the philosopher's work in terms of philosophical translation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781108971669
• ISBN-10: 1108971660
• Artikelnr.: 60137011

Autorenporträt

Aaron Johnson is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Classics at Lee University, working on the intellectual and cultural history of late antiquity. He is also the author of Ethnicity and Argument in Eusebius' Praeparatio Evanglica (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. At the limits of Hellenism: an introduction
Part I. A World Full of Gods: Porphyry the Theologian: 2. Porphyry's taxonomy of the divine
3. Salvation, translation, and the limits of cult
4. The master reader: contexts of translation
Part II. A World Full of Nations: Porphyry the Ethnographer: 5. Knowledge and nations: Porphyry's ethnic argumentation
6. Ethnic particularism and the limits of Hellenism
7. The way home: transcending particularism
Epilogue: translation after Porphyry.