Iamblichus: On the Mysteries - Paperback

by Iamblichus (Author), Emma C. Clarke (Translator), John M. Dillon (Translator)

It takes a whole team, and several years, to translate work by the Syrian native Iamblichus (250-330), because his writing is neither eloquent nor graceful. They use the Bud text of douard Des Place as a basis for facing pages of Greek and English. The work attempts to combine the teachings of revelation literature with those of Neoplatonism, and t