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Aeneas of Gaza: Theophrastus with Zacharias of Mytilene: Ammonius

by Donald Russell
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781780932095
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • Pages: 216
  • Original Price: GBP 150.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 476 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient & Classical, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, and Grammar & Punctuation

50 years before Philoponus, two Christians from Gaza, seeking to influence Alexandrian Christians, defended the Christian belief in resurrection and the finite duration of the world, and attacked rival Neoplatonist views. Aeneas addresses an unusual version of the food chain argument against resurrection, that our bodies will get eaten by other creatures. Zacharias attacks the Platonist examples of synchronous creation, which were the production of light, of shadow, and of a footprint in the sand. A fragment survives of a third Gazan contribution by Procopius. Zacharias lampoons the Neoplatonist professor in Alexandria, Ammonius, and claims a leading role in the riot which led to the cleverest Neoplatonist, Damascius, fleeing to Athens. It was only Philoponus, however, who was able to embarrass the Neoplatonists by arguing against them on their own terms.

Sebastian Gertz is Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at St John's College, Oxford, UK.
John Dillon is Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Donald Russell is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature at Oxford University, UK.

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