Title A threat to public piety : Christians, Platonists, and the great persecution / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser.

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 218 pages)
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : from permeable circles to hardened boundaries -- Ammonius Saccas and the philosophy without conflicts -- Origen as a student of Ammonius -- Plotinus, Porphyry, and philosophy in the public realm -- Schism in the Ammonian community : Porphyry v. Iamblichus -- Schism in the Ammonian community : Porphyry v. Methodius of Olympus -- Conclusion : the Ammonian community and the great persecution.
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Subject	Persecution -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
	Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
	Christianity -- Philosophy -- History.
	Christianity -- Philosophy.
	History.
	Platonists.
	Platonists.
	Violence -- Philosophy.
	Violence -- Philosophy.
	Philosophy and religion.
	Philosophy and religion.
	Violence -- Religious aspects.
	Violence -- Religious aspects.
Chronological Term	30-600
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma, 1959- Threat to public piety. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012 9780801441813 0801441811 (DLC) 2011037723
ISBN	0801463963 (electronic book)
	9780801463969 (electronic book)
	9780801441813 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0801441811 (cloth ; alkaline paper)