Nemesius

Nemesius - Paperback

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Nemesius

Nemesius - Paperback

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by Philip Van Der Eijk (Commentaries by), Philip Van Der Eijk (Translator), Robert W. Sharples (Commentaries by)

Nemesius' treatise On the Nature of Man is an important text for historians of ancient thought, not only as a much-quarried source of evidence for earlier works now lost, but also as an indication of intellectual life in the late fourth century AD. The author was a Christian bishop; the subject is the nature of human beings and their place in the scheme of created things. The medical works of Galen and the philosophical writings of Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonist Porphyry are all major influences on Nemesius; so too the controversial Christian Origen. On the Nature of Man provides the first kown compendium of theological anthropology with a Christian orientation and considerably influenced later Byzantine and medieval Latin philosophical theology.

Author Biography

Philip Van Der Eijk is Professor of Greek at Newcastle University. R.W. Sharples was Professor of Classics at University College London.

Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.7 IN
Publication Date: July 01, 2008

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