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Les pythagoriciens de Poseidonia : reconstitution d’un contexte

Kentron, 2022
The oldest members of the Pythagorean communities in Southern Italy are, in general, poorly known. Nevertheless, it is possible to draw a portrait of the members of the hetairia in some cities of Magna Graecia.
Corentin Voisin
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Homer as the first theologian: an allegory and symbol in Porphyry’s treatise ‘’On the сave of the nymphs’’ [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2020
This article explores the hermeneutical principles that Porphyry of Tyre used for interpreting the description of the cave of the nymphs in the Odyssey.
Roman Soloviev
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Iamblichus’ Investiture of Pythagoras [PDF]

Méthexis, 2018
The paper draws a parallel between Iamblichus’ presentation of Pythagoras in the first lines of On the Pythagorean Way of Life, and Aristotle’s presentation of Thales in Metaphysics A. Although the texts present two different accounts of the origins of philosophy, they nevertheless feature strong parallels such as the Greek formulation used to invest ...
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Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians

, 2011
This translation from the Greek by Thomas Taylor (1758–1835) was first published in 1821. Taylor's early writings and translations into English influenced such romantic poets as Blake, Coleridge and Keats. Iamblichus is thought to have been born in Syria
null Iamblichus
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Iamblichus: the two-fold nature of the soul and the causes of Human Agency

, 2012
Iamblichus’ doctrine of the soul poses a problem of internal consistency. Based on the fragments of De anima preserved in Joannes Stobaeus’ writings, the evidence provided by Priscian of Lydia and the commentary on De anima attributed to Simplicius in ...
TAORMINA, DANIELA PATRIZIA, Taormina, DP
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Iamblichus on the Soul [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2012
Built on two previous studies, dedicated, respectively, to Iamblichus of Chalcis’ (c. 240 – 325) Letters and his vision of the afterlife (ΣΧΟΛΗ 4.1 (2010) 166–193 and ΣΧΟΛΗ 4.2 (2010) 239–245), the author now turns to the De anima of the Syrian ...
Eugene Afonasin
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Theurgy, Paredroi, and Embodied Power in Neoplatonism and Late Antique Celestial Hierarchies

Religions
This article will place the rituals of the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) for the acquisition of a supernatural assistant (paredros) into conversation with broader late antique debates surrounding the place of daimones within the celestial hierarchy.
Katarina Pejovic
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L’« Anonyme » : un palimpseste démocritéen dans le Protreptique de Jamblique ?

Kentron, 2012
Iamblichus, in the Protrepticus, brings together many texts mainly borrowed from unnamed philosophers, first and foremost from Plato and Aristotle, into a broad synthesis, framing all of these quoted fragments with a syncretic ...
Michelle Lacore
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The Reverb of Divine Revelation: Theological Poetics in John of the Cross

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the theological poetics of John of the Cross, investigating both the conditions under which contemplative experience gives rise to speech and the theological status of that speech within John's account of divine revelation.
Michael C. Costas
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Good reasons to philosophize: On Hadot, Cooper, and ancient philosophical protreptic

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 231-248, April 2024.
Abstract This paper reassesses the Cooper‐Hadot debate surrounding how students are converted to philosophy as a way of life (section 1) through engagement with philosophical protreptics. In section 2, the paper identifies the core “argument from finality” in philosophical protreptics seeking to convert non‐philosophers to philosophy, starting from the
Matthew Sharpe
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