Mutations of Hellenism in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9780367879723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 394 str.

Polymnia Athanassiadi

Opis

The studies in this volume, which deal with social and intellectual history, religion and historical methodology, explore the mutation of an anthropocentric culture into a theocentric one between the second and the fifth centuries A.D. Athanassiadi focuses on the processes of osmosis, interaction and acculturation, which shaped the change in priori

Recenzje

‘Athanassiadi remains a significant and engaging interlocutor in the conversations on Late Antiquity and its pagan holy men’ – The Classical Journal, 2016.05.05

Spis treści

Methodological Concerns: Antiquite tardive: construction et deconstruction d'un modele historiographique.  The oecumenism of Iamblichus: latent knowledge and its awakening.  A Religious Koine: Hellenism: a theological koine. The gods are God: polytheistic cult and monotheistic theology in the world of late antiquity.  Apamea and the Chaldaean Oracles: a holy city and a holy book.  Canonizing Platonism: the fetters of Iamblichus.  The creation of orthodoxy in Neoplatonism.  A contribution to Mithraic theology: the Emperor Julian's Hymn to King Helios.  Le traitement du mythe: de l'empereur Julien a Proclus.  Prophecy and Revelation: Philosophers and oracles: shifts of authority in late paganism.  The fate of oracles in late antiquity: Didyma and Delphi.  Dreams, theurgy and freelance divination: the testimony of Iamblichus.  The Chaldaean Oracles: theology and theurgy.  Byzantine commentators on the Chaldaean Oracles: Psellos and Pletho.  I"I*IIYIGBP ANHI!: Ascent to heroic or divine status in late antiquity: continuities and transformations.  The divine man of late Hellenism: a sociable and popular figure.  Julian the Theurgist: man or myth?  Dissidence and Persecution: Persecution and response in late paganism: the evidence of Damascius. Who was Count Zosimus?'  Christians and others: the conversion ethos in late antiquity.  Envoi: From polis to Theoupolis: school syllabuses and teaching methods in late antiquity.

O autorze

Polymnia Athanassiadi is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Athens, Greece.