Ebook: Aeneas of Gaza

Cover; Contents; Preface; Note on the Composition of the Present Volume; Conventions; Note on Citations; Aeneas of Gaza: Theophrastus; Introduction; Translation; Variations from Colonna's Text; Notes; English-Greek Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Greek-English Index; A; B; D; E; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; Z; Zacharias of Mytilene: Ammonius; Introduction; Translation; Variations from Colonna's Text; Notes; English-Greek Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Greek-English Index; A; B; D; E; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P.;50 years before Philoponustwo Christians from Gaza, seeking to influence Alexandrian Christians, defended the Christian belief in resurrection and the finite duration of the world, and attacked rival Neoplatonist views. Aeneas addresses an unusual version of the food chain argument against resurrection, that our bodies will get eaten by other creatures. Zacharias attacks the Platonist examples of synchronous creation, which were the production of light, of shadow, and of a footprint in the sand. A fragment survives of a third Gazan contribution by Procopius. Zacharias lampoons the Neoplatonist.