Neoplatonic Hagiography
EUNAPIUS; Hadrianus JUNIUS, translator; Hieronymus COMMELIN, editor.
Βιοι φιλοσοφων και σοφιστων … De vitis philosophorum et sophistarum … Graeca cum mss. Palatinis comparata, aucta, & emendata … Nunc recens accedunt eiusdem auctoris legationes, e bibliotheca Andreae Schotti Antverpiani.
An uncommon edition of the twenty-four biographies of Eunapius of Sardis (c. 345–415), valuable as a source for the neo-Platonic, and anti-Christian, philosophy of the fourth century; like the Emperor Julian, whom he admired, he wrote to oppose Christianity and defend his own beliefs. His subjects included Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Epiphanius, ‘of whom Eunapius gives an idealized picture in order to compete with the biographies of Christian saints’ (OCD), and he includes one female philosopher, Sosipatra.
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