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Author:

Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma, 1959-

Title:

A threat to public piety : Christians, Platonists, and the great persecution / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xv, 218 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Persecution--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity--History.--History.
Platonists.
Violence--Philosophy.
Philosophy and religion.
Violence--Religious aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : from permeable circles to hardened boundaries -- Ammonius Saccas and the philosophy without conflicts -- Origen as a student of Ammonius -- Plotinus, Porphyry, and philosophy in the public realm -- Schism in the Ammonian community : Porphyry v. Iamblichus -- Schism in the Ammonian community : Porphyry v. Methodius of Olympus -- Conclusion : the Ammonian community and the great persecution.

ISBN:

0801441811 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801441813 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)754105622

LCCN:

2011037723

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)