Hierocles of Alexandria (Hardcover)

Visiting Professor of Classics Hermann S Schibli
Oxford University Press, USA
9780199249213
0-19-924921-0

Hierocles of Alexandria was a Neoplatonic philosopher of the fifth century AD. Hermann S. Schibli surveys his life, writings, and pagan and Christian surroundings, and succintly examines the major points.

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of his philosophy, both contemplative and practical. He includes the first modern English translations, with helpful notes, of Hierocles' Commentary on the Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans and of the remnants of his treatise On Providence.