Introduction: biography as arena of philosophical competition -- The roots that remain -- Moses and Pythagoras: reading the bios as philosophical history -- Plotinus and Origen: biography and the renewal of philosophy -- Constantine and Julian: the politics of philosophy -- The cell and the school: geographical and social distance in the competition for philosophy -- Macrina and Sosipatra: beyond their nature -- Syrian monks and Proclus: Athens at the periphery and center of philosophy in the fifth century.
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