6. The Crown

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Culture Wars 8
6. 2. Plotinus Against His Gnostic Friends 32
7. 3. Other Ways of Writing 48
8. 4. The Descent 77
9. 5. The Ascent 95
10. 6. The Crown 112
11. 7. Between Judaism, Christianity, and Neoplatonism 140
12. Appendix: Reading Porphyry on the Gnostic Heretics and Their Apocalypses 161
13. Notes 165
14. Bibliography 250
15. Index 303
16. Acknowledgments 320