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A rage for red: pillar of the ancient world
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/27/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...16, 70 pieces of porphyry, ranging from Greek-occupied Ptolemaic...the rarity that made porphyry so desirable had its...years, Ancient Roman porphyry pillars scattered across...Greek original. Now scholars favor a second-century...
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The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...DOCTRINE OF DEIFICATION IN THE GREEK PATRISTIC TRADITION. By Norman...Christian according to the Greek Fathers [2002]). The book...concludes that "by the time Porphyry first wrote of the philosopher...brief and do not engage other scholars. Recourse to a number of studies...
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The Christians as the Romans saw them.
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/28/1984; ; 700+ words
; ...the next one; the Greek philosopher Porphyry in the third; and...with the writings of Porphyry and Julian after Christianity...Christianity in antiquity Porphyry was the most learned...accepted by all Biblical scholars. Julian, a nephew...
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The Handbook of Platonism.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; Scholars of later Greek philosophy will surely...Handbook of Platonism). Late Greek thought has often been...philosophies of Plotinus, Porphyry, and their successors...readable and true to its Greek source. The commentary...
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The death of Roger II of Sicily: February 26th, 1154.
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...He was brought up by Greek and Muslim tutors and...populated by Arabs and Greeks, and he emerged with...Rome, he flirted with Greek Orthodoxy. He lived...glittering court among scholars from both the West and...or Latin, Arabic or Greek, and he put an Arab scholar and friend in ...
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Blaming the barbarians.(preservation of culture after the Barbarian invasions of Rome)
Magazine article from: The Humanist; 5/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Cahill argues that Irish monastic scholars rescued classical and folk literature...by prominent non-Christian scholars, such as Porphyry and Celsus. By the late fourth...17-19, we learn that the Greeks and Jews in the city of Ephesus...
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Daniel
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...that some evangelical scholars have turned from a rearguard...variations in the Old Greek and Theodotionic recensions...Collins has been a leading scholar in analyzing the apocalyptic...Reformation and evangelical scholars. There are illuminating...Collins concedes that Greek words do not ...
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On Aristotle's Categories.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...last body of important Greek writings to be translated...and because through Porphyry the Categories became...essay on "Plotinus and Porphyry on the Categories" (pp. 1-3) and "Porphyry's Platonising interpretation...useful not only for scholars but also for students...
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Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...thirty-two well-chosen scholars present thirty-six hagiographical...Rapp gives us a purported Greek bishop's life from Egypt...Deacon's Life of St. Porphyry of Gaza. If we cannot be sure that there ever was a Porphyry, the situation is quite...
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Apologetic Discourse and the Scribal Tradition: Evidence of the Influence of Apologetic Interests on the Text of the Canonical Gospels
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Testament in the Original Greek [New York: Harper...been a steady chorus of scholars intending to show the...critics like Celsus and Porphyry-and therefore altered...critics (from Pliny to Porphyry) and the various early...volume worthwhile for any scholar interested in such ...
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Porphyry
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Porphyry , c.232-c.304, Greek scholar and Neoplatonic philosopher. He studied rhetoric under Cassius Longinus and philosophy under Plotinus . He later lectured in Rome...
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Theano
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the wife of the Greek mathematician and philosopher...antiquity by classical Greek scholars and is considered to...Pythagoras: A Life, cited Porphyry's account of Pythagoras...Croton. According to Porphyry, Pythagoras was at...finally, the women. Porphyry added: "One of the...
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Al-Farabi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...century, philosopher, scholar, and alchemist Al...philosophical systems of Greek philosophers Aristotle...Arabic translations of Greek philosophers by Nestorian...dedicated to converting Greek texts by Plato, Aristotle, Themistius, Porphyry, and Ammonius into Arabic...
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Nicolaus of Damascus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...education, probably from Greek tutors, and became so distinguished a scholar that he attracted the...flavors. The original Greek text of the De plantis...translation of the Latin into Greek by Maximus Planudes...Aristotelian commentator that Porphyry and even Simplicius used...
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Neoplatonism
Book article from: The Renaissance
...which was revived by scholars, essayists, and poets...Plotinus and his student Porphyry, the author of the...Neoplatonist school. These scholars of Alexandria sought...Renaissance, many scholars of ancient Greek philosophy studied...Buonarroti. Ficino was a scholar of Plato as well ...
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