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Title: Iamblichus: De Mysteriis (Writings from the Greco-Roman World) by Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon, Jackson P. Hershbell ISBN: 9-0041272-0-8 Publisher: Brill Academic Pub Pub. Date: February, 2004 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $156.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Exoteric Manual of Theurgy receives a much needed updating
Comment: Before this English translation of Iamblichus' only surviving defense of theurgy, scholars and those few others, curious about such matters had only Taylors' version to refer to. (While I am aware of A. Wilders' translation it suffers from far too many errors to be of much real value). Now Clarke, Dillon, and Hershbell have gifted us with what is sure to be the standard for years to come. That is not to say that Thomas Taylor was not a super-Damion among men. His translation no doubt will remain for years. This due to the fact that Taylor truly understood Theurgy as few other scholars.
So why the need for a new critical translation? Besides the fact that more extant manuscripts were examined than ever before in its preparation, this is a near transparent reading of Iamblichus' intent with clarity and fidelity. Unlike Proclus and many other Platonic fathers, Iamblichus according to Eunapius did not possessed a silver tongue. His writing is at times both tortured and unconventional. Somehow our current team has managed to negotiate many of the traditional Iamblichean hurdles.
The De Mysteriis is a brief examination of noetic or abiding principles of the soul together with proceeding and returning principles. Add to this that based upon the the focused questions from Porphyry, Iamblichus takes on some of the more difficult questions left unanswered by Plotinus. Questions such as the descent of the soul; whether or not the charioteer or One of soul remains undescended. In adddition Iamblichus deals with material sacrifice and its relation to the unmovable Gods, appearances of sound and light and their relation to the quale of beingness, epopteia and the art of Telestai. All these thorny questions and still more Iamblichus tackles in De Mysteriis.
An absolute must for all Scholarch-mystae!
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Title: Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric (WRITINGS FROM THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD) by George A. Kennedy, George Alexander Kennedy ISBN: 158983061X Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by David Sedley ISBN: 0521775035 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Neoplatonism by R. T. Wallis, Lloyd P. Gerson ISBN: 0872202879 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Reality by Peter Kingsley ISBN: 1890350095 Publisher: Golden Sufi Center Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Guide to the Zohar by Arthur Green ISBN: 0804749086 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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