We discuss how Platonist philosophical teaching played out at Alexandria before Justinian's edict of 529 and in its aftermath. Featuring cameo appearances from the fall of the western Roman empire and Horapollo's <em>Hieroglyphika</em>.

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

Earl Fontainelle

The Last Platonists? Philosophic Teaching, Christianity, and Polytheism in Late-Antique Alexandria

SEP 18, 202442 MIN
Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

The Last Platonists? Philosophic Teaching, Christianity, and Polytheism in Late-Antique Alexandria

SEP 18, 202442 MIN

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We discuss how Platonist philosophical teaching played out at Alexandria before Justinian's edict of 529 and in its aftermath. Featuring cameo appearances from the fall of the western Roman empire and Horapollo's <em>Hieroglyphika</em>.