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2. Birth, Death, and Divinity in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus
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M. J. Edwards
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents VII
- Preface IX
- Abbreviations XI
- Introduction: Biography and Panegyric 1
- 1. Philosophic Lives and the Philosophic Life: Porphyry and Iamblichus 29
- 2. Birth, Death, and Divinity in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus 52
- 3. Form and Meaning: The Vita Constantini and the Vita Antonii 72
- 4. Antony as Teacher in the Greek Life 89
- 5. Philosophy and Simplicity: The Problem of Classical Education in Early Christian Biography 110
- 6. Your Honor, My Reputation: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration on St. Basil the Great 140
- 7. How to Praise a Friend: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration for St. Basil the Great 160
- 8. Eros Transformed: Same-Sex Love and Divine Desire. Reflections on the Erotic Vocabulary in St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Speech on St. Basil the Great 180
- 9. The Rhetoric of Praise in the Private Orations of Themistius 194
- 10. Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy 209
- 11. The Syriac Life of Rabbula and Syrian Hellenism 255
- Contributors 273
- General Index 277
- Index Locorum 283
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents VII
- Preface IX
- Abbreviations XI
- Introduction: Biography and Panegyric 1
- 1. Philosophic Lives and the Philosophic Life: Porphyry and Iamblichus 29
- 2. Birth, Death, and Divinity in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus 52
- 3. Form and Meaning: The Vita Constantini and the Vita Antonii 72
- 4. Antony as Teacher in the Greek Life 89
- 5. Philosophy and Simplicity: The Problem of Classical Education in Early Christian Biography 110
- 6. Your Honor, My Reputation: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration on St. Basil the Great 140
- 7. How to Praise a Friend: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration for St. Basil the Great 160
- 8. Eros Transformed: Same-Sex Love and Divine Desire. Reflections on the Erotic Vocabulary in St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Speech on St. Basil the Great 180
- 9. The Rhetoric of Praise in the Private Orations of Themistius 194
- 10. Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy 209
- 11. The Syriac Life of Rabbula and Syrian Hellenism 255
- Contributors 273
- General Index 277
- Index Locorum 283
