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The 21 studies in this volume, which deal with issues of social and intellectual history, religion and historical methodology, explore the ways whereby over the course of a few hundred years -roughly between the second and the fifth centuries A.D.- an anthropocentric culture mutated into a theocentric one. Rather than underlining the differences between a revamped paganism and the emergent... Read more
Methodological Concerns: Antiquite tardive: construction et deconstruction d'un modele historiographique. The oecumenism of Iamblichus: latent knowledge and its awakening. A Religious Koine: Hellenism: a theological koine. The gods are God: polytheistic cult and monotheistic theology in the world of late antiquity. Apamea and the Chaldaean Oracles: a holy city and a holy book. Canonizing Platonism: the fetters of Iamblichus. The creation of orthodoxy in Neoplatonism. A contribution to Mithraic theology: the Emperor Julian's Hymn to King Helios. Le traitement du mythe: de l'empereur Julien a Proclus. Prophecy and Revelation: Philosophers and oracles: shifts of authority in late paganism. The fate of oracles in late antiquity: Didyma and Delphi. Dreams, theurgy and freelance divination: the testimony of Iamblichus. The Chaldaean Oracles: theology and theurgy. Byzantine commentators on the Chaldaean Oracles: Psellos and Pletho. II*IIYIGBP ANHI!: Ascent to heroic or divine status in late antiquity: continuities and transformations. The divine man of late Hellenism: a sociable and popular figure. Julian the Theurgist: man or myth? Dissidence and Persecution: Persecution and response in late paganism: the evidence of Damascius. Who was Count Zosimus?' Christians and others: the conversion ethos in late antiquity. Envoi: From polis to Theoupolis: school syllabuses and teaching methods in late antiquity.
Biography
Polymnia Athanassiadi is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Athens, Greece.
‘Athanassiadi remains a significant and engaging interlocutor in the conversations on Late Antiquity and its pagan holy men’ – The Classical Journal, 2016.05.05
