Porphyry In Fragments: Reception Of An Anti-Christian Text In Late Antiquity (Studies In Philosophy And Theology In Late Antiquity)

The Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre had a reputation as the fiercest critic of Christianity. It was well-deserved: he composed fifteen discourses against the Christians, so offensive that Christian emperors ordered them to be burnt. We thus rely on the testimonies of three prominent Christian writers to know what Porphyry wrote. Porphyry in Fragments argues that Porphyry's actual thoughts became mixed with the thoughts of the Christians who preserved his ideas, as well as those of other Christian opponents.

• • Author: Dr Ariane Magny
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jul 28, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 202 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1409441156
• • ISBN-13: 9781409441151