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 CenturyEpilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
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Christian biography.
Church history-- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Neoplatonism-- History.
Neoplatonism, Biography.
Philosophy-- History.
Philosophy, Biography.
Christian biography.
Church history-- Primitive and early church.
Neoplatonism.
PHILOSOPHY-- History & Surveys-- Ancient & Classical.