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Author Urbano, Arthur P.

Title The philosophical life : biography and the crafting of intellectual identity in late antiquity / Arthur P. Urbano.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm).
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Series Patristic monograph series ; Volume 21
Patristic monograph series ; Volume 21.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Biography as Arena of Philosophical Competition""; ""1. The Roots That Remain""; ""2. Moses and Pythagoras: Reading the Bios as Philosophical History""; ""3. Plotinus and Origen: Biography and the Renewal of Philosophy""; ""4. Constantine and Julian: The Politics of Philosophy""; ""5. The Cell and the School: Geographical and Social Distance in the Competition for Philosophy""; ""6. Macrina and Sosipatra: Beyond Their Nature""
""7. Syrian Monks and Proclus: Athens at the Periphery and Center of Philosophy in the Fifth Century""""Epilogue""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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Subject Christian biography.
Christian biography.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Philosophy -- Biography.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Philosophy -- History.
History.
Neoplatonism -- Biography.
Neoplatonism.
Neoplatonism -- History.
Chronological Term 30-600
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: 9780813221625 0813221625 (DLC) 2013018064 (OCoLC)851255176
ISBN 9780813221632 (electronic book)
0813221633 (electronic book)
9780813221625 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0813221625