Philo of Alexandria

Philo of Alexandria
Author: Maren Niehoff
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 030017523X

This first biography of Philo of Alexandria, one of antiquity's most prolific yet enigmatic authors, traces his intellectual development from Bible interpreter to diplomat in Rome

What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem?

What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem?
Author: Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1997
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9780472108077

An important contribution to early Christian studies

On Plato’s Timaeus

On Plato’s Timaeus
Author: Calcidius
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 795
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674599179

In the 4th century CE, Calcidius translated into Latin an important section of Plato’s Timaeus, complemented by commentary and organized into coordinated parts. Its organization subsequently informed the sense of macrocosm and microcosm—of the world and our place in it—which is prevalent in western European thought in the Middle Ages.

Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition

Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition
Author: Christina Hoenig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2018-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108415806

The book explores the development of Platonic philosophy by Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. Discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how they contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism.

From Stoicism to Platonism

From Stoicism to Platonism
Author: Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107166195

This book explores the process during 100 BCE-100 CE by which dualistic Platonism became the reigning school in philosophy.