Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity ed by Polymnia Athanassiadi & Michael Frede (1999).pdf

Pagan Monotheism in

Late Antiquity

edited by

Polymnia Athanassiadi

and

Michael Frede

CLARENDON PRESS

OXFORD

•

1999

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Pagan monotheism in late antiquity

edited by P. Athanassiadi and M. Frede.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Monotheism—History.

2. Rome—Religion.

I. Athanassiadi,

Polymnia.

II. Frede, Michael.

BL221.P34

1999

291.2'11'0937—dc21

98-37019

ISBN 0-19-815252-3

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Typeset in Minion

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Contents

List of Contributors

vii

Introduction

polymnia athanassiadi and michael frede

Towards Monotheism

m. l. west

Monotheism and Pagan Philosophy in Later Antiquity

michael frede

Monotheism in the Gnostic Tradition

john dillon

The Cult of Theos Hypsistos between Pagans, Jews, and

Christians

stephen mitchell

The Chaldaean Oracles: Theology and Theurgy

149

polymnia athanassiadi

The Signiﬁcance of the Speech of Praetextatus

185

wolf liebeschuetz

Index

207

List of Contributors

is professor of late antique history at the

University of Athens; her most recent publication is Damascius, The

Philosophical History: Text with Translation and Notes (Athens, 1999).

olymnia

thanassiadi

is regius professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin, and

a member of the Royal Irish Academy. His most recent book is Alcinous:

The Handbook of Platonism (Oxford, 1993).

ohn

illon

is professor of the history of philosophy at the

University of Oxford. He is, with G. Patzig, author of a commentary on

Aristotle’s Metaphysics Zeta .

ichael

rede

is professor emeritus of Nottingham University

and a Fellow of the British Academy. His most recent book is Barbarians

and Bishops (Oxford, 1990; repr. 1998).

olf

iebeschuetz

is professor in the Department of Classics and

Ancient History at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is author of

Anatolia: Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor (Oxford, 1993) and of

Pisidian Antioch: The Site and its Monuments (London, 1998).

M. L. W

tephen

itchell

is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and

the author of many critical editions of Greek poets, and books and

articles about Greek literature. His most recent work is The East Face of

Helicon (Oxford, 1997).

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