Against the Christians
work by Porphyry
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discussed in biography
- In Porphyry
Surviving fragments of his Against the Christians, which was condemned in 448 to be burned, marked him as a fierce critic of the new religion. He was also lecturer on Plotinus and tutor to the Syrian philosopher Iamblichus, wrote a life of the mathematician Pythagoras, and preserved precious fragments…
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pagan Neoplatonism
- In Platonism: The later Neoplatonists
…work of 15 books entitled Against the Christians.
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