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List of contents
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.
About the author
Polymnia Athanassiadi is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Athens, Greece.
Summary
The studies in this volume, which deal with social and intellectual history, religion and historical methodology, explore the mutation of an anthropocentric culture into a theocentric one between the second and the fifth centuries A.D. Athanassiadi focuses on the processes of osmosis, interaction and acculturation, which shaped the change in priori
