Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Life

Iamblichus, ca.ca.; Clark, Gillian

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“…(tr. Clark (1989)) Pythagoras himself is the 'black-shining' mirror that allows humans to see the gods. 109 This passage clearly alludes to Plato's cave myth (humans cannot look at reality), to Plato's comparing imitation with mirrors (Resp.…”

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THEGETTY HEXAMETERSAND GREEK TRAGEDY

Battezzato

2022

Camb. class. j.

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The present article aims to show that several passages of Greek tragedy make use of language present in the Getty Hexameters, especially in contexts where incantations and protection of the city are mentioned. The Getty Hexameters were written on a lead tablet at the end of the fifth century BC in Sicily (Selinus or, more likely, Himera). The article argues that the composition of the text predates the lead tablet by several decades (section 2). It focuses on similarities in structure and language that involve Soph. fr. 535 (section 4), Aeschylus’ Oresteia (section 5), Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus (section 6) and Euripides’ Hecuba (section 8). It also suggests that Plato (section 7) and late antique poetry and prose (section 9) reuse some of the linguistic elements of the incantatory tradition of the Getty Hexameters.

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“…741), wοινικ]ο-(cf. Ion 162), γλαυκ]ο-, χρυσ]ο-λευκ]ο-, κελαιν]ο-(seeDiggle (1994) 350;Collard et al (2004) andKannicht (2004) ad loc.). On mirrors in Neoplatonism and the connection of the motif of mirrors with Pl.…”

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THEGETTY HEXAMETERSAND GREEK TRAGEDY

Battezzato

2022

Camb. class. j.

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“…A treatise, On the Mysteries of Egypt, a defense of theurgy more properly entitled A Reply of the priest Abammon to the letter of Porphyry to Anebo, and the solutions to the questions it contains, is equally popular among students To mention complete and relatively recent translations only, the treatise was rendered at least once into German (Albrecht 1963) and French (Brisson-Segonds 1996), twice in English (Clark 1989, Dillon-Hershbell 1991 and Spanish (Ramos Jurado 1991, Periago Lorente 2003, three times in Italian (Montoneri 1973, Giangiulio 1991, Romano 2006 and Russian (Poluektov 1997, Chernigovskij 1998, Melnikova 2002, etc. The edition: Deubner-Klein 1937 For further details and bibliography cf.…”

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Iamblichus and the Foundations of Late Platonism

Afonasin¹,

Dillon²,

Finamore³

2012

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“…3-10). I cite the text by page and line number in Deubner's edition (Deubner 1975) and in the translation by Clark 1989. The last line of this passage comes from Plato's Timaeus 47b1-2.…”

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Ancient Biographies of Pythagoras and Epicurus as Models of the Philosophical Life

O’Meara¹

2019

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Cet article a pour objet le rapport éventuel entre la biographie épicurienne, dans sa fonction de proposer des modèles de félicité humaine, et la biographie telle qu'elle est pratiquée dans le platonisme de l'Antiquité tardive, notamment dans le De vita Pythagorica de Jamblique. Il est montré que des traits du portrait de Pythagore, tel que Jamblique le représente, le mode de vie qu'il cultivait et qu'il enseignait à ses disciples, évoquent des éléments spécifiques à l'éthique d'Épicure. La manière dont la biographie avait été pratiquée dans les écoles épicuriennes, servant à proposer des exemples de la vie du sage, à imiter et assimiler par les membres de l'école, fait l'objet d'une deuxième section. Enfin, plus généralement, il est noté que l'éthique épicurienne a pu trouver place dans la philosophie néoplatonicienne, chez Porphyre et chez Jamblique, au niveau de la vie pratique, de la discipline du corps et des désirs corporels. Summary. In this paper I explore possible connections between Epicurean biography, in its function as providing models of human felicity, and late antique Platonist biography, in particular Iamblichus' De vita Pythagorica. I first note that Iamblichus' portrait of Pythagoras' life-style, as he lived it and taught it to his disciples, includes a number of traits to be found specifically in Epicurean ethics. I then bring out the function biography played in Epicurean schools in exemplifying a life of the sage to be imitated and inculcated by members of the school. Finally, I point to the integration of Epicurean ethical ideas more generally in Neoplatonic philosophy, in Porphyry as well as in Iamblichus, ideas seen as pertinent to practical ethics, to the discipline of the body and of bodily desires.

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Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Life

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THEGETTY HEXAMETERSAND GREEK TRAGEDY

THEGETTY HEXAMETERSAND GREEK TRAGEDY

Iamblichus and the Foundations of Late Platonism

Ancient Biographies of Pythagoras and Epicurus as Models of the Philosophical Life

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