Polemic, Personality and the Lamblichean Circle in Eunapius' Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (VPS)*
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2022
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Baltussen, J.N.
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d'Hoine, P.
Roskam, G.R.
Schorn, S.
Verheyden, J.
Roskam, G.R.
Schorn, S.
Verheyden, J.
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Polemics and Networking in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 2022 / d'Hoine, P., Roskam, G.R., Schorn, S., Verheyden, J. (ed./s), pp.151-176
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Han Baltussen
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This paper examines Eunapius' Lives of Philosophers and Sophists in which he selectively highlights biographical details of Platonist philosophers around Iamblichus and otters. I argue that these sketches are meant to emphasise his position within three networks of pagan intellectuals in the fourth century in order to strengthen his polemical agenda against the Christians.
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