A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution

Contents

q Contents Preface ix List of Abbreviations xiii introduction: From Permeable circles to hardened boundaries 1 1. Ammonius saccas and the Philosophy without conflicts 23 2. origen as a student of Ammonius 49 3. Plotinus, Porphyry, and Philosophy in the Public realm 72 4. schism in the Ammonian community: Porphyry v. iamblichus 98 5. schism in the Ammonian community: Porphyry v. Methodius of olympus 128 conclusion: The Ammonian community and the Great Persecution 164 Bibliography 193 Index 215 ...