*Summer Course “Polemos/Pulmus: Ways of Confrontation in Judaism, Paganism and Christianity in Late Antiquity” **at Central European University (CEU) in...
Hey Imram, I don,t know if this helps, but if you want to check out the full work, there's the seven volume Armstrong translation from the Loeb Classical...
Actually look at the work done by Hustchinson and Johnson on the Protrepticus, which they have been kind enough to post online, and they are also to publish at...
Dear List, Allow me to share with you a very intriguing paper I have just read: "THE CORPUS AREOPAGITICUM AS A CRYPTO-PAGAN PROJECT", by Tuomo Lankila. Here is...
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Thanks, Thomas, it was me. What I found interesting about the paper (besides being a fine piece of scholarship: learned and pleasant to read) is the hypothesis...
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John Dillon
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Jan 10, 2012 10:59 pm
... I have to say I find this hypothesis much less probable than that of a highly-sophisticated Christian student of Proclus, though I don¹t suppose it can be...
To be honest, Professor Dillon, I too think that a Christian origin for the Corpus is much more probable (though my opinion is absolutely unimportant). That is...
I understand that the supposed pagan forgery is just too perfect to be believable, but what bothers me is Christian access to PT. If the Dionysian Corpus is...
As a follow up to your question and John's point that a convinced Hellene wouldn't probably be all that interested, ("It is just that the mind-set of a...
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John Dillon
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Jan 11, 2012 6:00 pm
... Well now, we don't precisely know what he had access to - though there is a pretty clear link to the De Malorum Subsistentia, Maybe just notes of Proclus'...
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John Dillon
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Jan 11, 2012 6:16 pm
... Well, that's true enough, but Porphyry was amassing data in order to do a hatchet job on the Christians, which he duly does - and the same goes for Celsus,...
That's exactly what came to my mind, Thomas: Hellenes had exibited detailed and sophiticated knowledge of the Bible, and Porphyry is the best example. In...
Couldn’t it be the case that, after the closing of the Athenian School – which meant for Neoplatonists not only the prohibition of Platonic studies, but...
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John Dillon
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Jan 11, 2012 9:18 pm
... Well, hard to refute that suggestion, but I still think the enthusiastic Christian Neoplatonist scenario is the more probable! John [Non-text portions of...
John, I'm only looking at the degree which pagans had interest and/or knowledge of nonpagan sources. I don't know about a pagan impersonating a Christian ...
Seems unlikely to me. The whole hypothesis seems to me wildly improbable and contrived. Let's compare the Islamic situation once again: Here, Plotinian and...
The earlier attestations of the Corpus Dionysiacum date from the early sixth century. That allows nearly a century for the hypothetical Christian to do his...
Michael, Let me make clear that I am not defending neither alternatives. And I don’t think that a Christian origin is unacceptable, as I don’t think that a...
This is quite an interesting discussion, but from my humble point of view it is not so much showing anything positive but rather how much there is we do not...
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John Dillon
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Jan 12, 2012 2:02 pm
... of ... in ... be ... fine ... Maria ... at ... thesis ... Athenian ... with ... version ... Terms ... is ... That’s a rather nice analogy, Marco! A lot...
