The philosophical life : biography and the crafting of intellectual identity in late antiquity /

The philosophical life : biography and the crafting of intellectual identity in late antiquity / Arthur P. Urbano.

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Main Author: Urbano, Arthur P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2013.
©2013.
Series:Patristic monograph series ; no. 21.
Subjects:
Christian biography.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Philosophy > Biography.
Philosophy > History.
Neoplatonism > Biography.
Neoplatonism > History.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Neoplatonism.
Philosophy.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Biography as Arena of Philosophical Competition
  • 1. The Roots That Remain
  • 2. Moses and Pythagoras: Reading the Bios as Philosophical History
  • 3. Plotinus and Origen: Biography and the Renewal of Philosophy
  • 4. Constantine and Julian: The Politics of Philosophy
  • 5. The Cell and the School: Geographical and Social Distance in the Competition for Philosophy
  • 6. Macrina and Sosipatra: Beyond Their Nature.
  • 7. Syrian Monks and Proclus: Athens at the Periphery and Center of Philosophy in the Fifth CenturyEpilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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