Religion and identity in Porphyry of Tyre : the limits of Hellenism in late antiquity /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013
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Series: | Greek culture in the Roman world
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Table of Contents:
- 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