DAMASCIUS: THE PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY

Παρουσίαση

Written in the early sixth century by Damascius, head of the Platonic Academy in Athens, the «Philosophical History» offers a panorama of the spiritual life of late antiquity from a pagan perspective. This «anti-ecclesiastical» history sets on stage three generations of orthodox and heretical exegetes of Hellenism in the guise of rhetors, philosophers, iatrosophists, poets, politicians and holy men and women, as well as establishing a sacred geography of paganism, which comprises not merely intellectual centres such as Athens, Alexandria and Aphrodisias, but also holy sites throughout the countryside of the Eastern Mediterranean. The reconstructed text permits the solution of several prosopographical enigmas, while at the same time providing fresh comparative evidence for the study of the historiographical methodology of the period. A new edition of the Greek text reconstructed from Photius, Epitome and Suidas, Lexicon with critical apparatus, English translation, commentary, and a full historical introduction. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
Abbreviations
Technicalities
Introduction
Summary
The Philosophical History: Text and τranslation
Testimonia
Appendix I : The House of Damascious ?
Appendix II : The two Asclepiodoti
Appendix III : Who was Count Zosimus ?
Plates
Map
Select Bibliography
Index of Personal Names
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Groups
Concordances