The Philosophy of the Few Against the Christians: An Inquiry Into the Textual Transmission of Porphyry's Philosophy According to the Chaldean Oracles

by Pier Franco Beatrice

This book gives us a new perspective on the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles by Porphyry of Tyre (ca. 232/305 CE), demonstrating that much of what we thought we knew about this work and its fragments is mistaken. Here, for the first time, the attempt is made at reconstructing the original text by following the vicissitudes of its reception and transmission from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance up to modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004680063
• ISBN13: 9789004680067
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 600 Pages