The Philosophy of the Few Against the Christians: An Inquiry Into the Textual Transmission of Porphyry's Philosophy According to the Chaldean Oracles ... Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Traditi)

‎Contents
‎Preface and Acknowledgments
‎Abbreviations
‎Introduction
‎Part 1. Preliminary Questions
	‎Chapter 1. A Philosophy Conforming with the “Chaldean Oracles”
	‎Chapter 2. An Esoteric Philosophy for the Salvation of the Soul of the Initiates
	‎Chapter 3. The First Commentary on the “Chaldean Oracles”
	‎Chapter 4. Zoroaster, the Magi, and the “Chaldean Oracles”
	‎Chapter 5. Polemics against the Christians
	‎Chapter 6. Some Further Consequences
‎Part 2. Χρηστικη Πραγματεια Statues, Sacrifices and Oracles
	‎Chapter 7. Philosophy versus Theurgy
	‎Chapter 8. The Orphic Prorrhesis and the Statues of the Gods
	‎Chapter 9. The Universal Way for the Salvation of the Soul
	‎Chapter 10. Sacrifices and Oracles
	‎Chapter 11. The Letter to Anebo and the Reply by Iamblichus
	‎Chapter 12. Chaldean Philosophy versus Chaldean Theology
	‎Chapter 13. The Anti-Christian Oracles of Hekate and Apollo
	‎Chapter 14. Against Origen’s Allegorical Interpretation of the Jewish Scriptures
	‎Chapter 15. Against Origen’s Allegorical Interpretation of Homer
‎Part 3. Πολλων Των Κατα Φιλοσοφιαν Δογματων Αναγραφη The History of Philosophy and the Encyclical Disciplines
	‎Chapter 16. The Chronicle of Greek Philosophy from the Fall of Troy to the Reign of Claudius
	‎Chapter 17. The History of Greek Philosophy from Homer to Plato
	‎Chapter 18. The History of Greek Philosophy from the Old Academy to Plotinus
	‎Chapter 19. The Two Editions of the Life of Plotinus
	‎Chapter 20. The Truest Philosophy of Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle
	‎Chapter 21. The Oracle of Apollo on Plotinus’s Soul
	‎Chapter 22. Porphyry and the Encyclical Disciplines
	‎Chapter 23. The Mathematical Disciplines
	‎Chapter 24. Augustine on the Encyclical Disciplines
	‎Chapter 25. The Encyclical Disciplines against the Christians
‎Part 4. Θεοσοφια Theological Wisdom for the Salvation of the Soul
	‎Chapter 26. The Threefold Division of Philosophy
	‎Chapter 27. Two Preliminary Methodological Issues
	‎Chapter 28. On the Union of Soul and Body
	‎Chapter 29. A Collection of Hieroi Logoi on the Soul
	‎Chapter 30. The Immortality of the Soul
	‎Chapter 31. Self-Determination and Transmigration of the Soul
	‎Chapter 32. Homer’s Philosophy of the Soul
	‎Chapter 33. From Anthropology-Ethics to Physics
	‎Chapter 34. From Physics to Metaphysics-Theology
	‎Chapter 35. Theology as the Fulfilment of Theosophy
	‎Chapter 36. Further Theological Fragments
	‎Chapter 37. Three Books against the Religion and Name of the Christians
‎Part 5. Reception in the Latin, Byzantine, and Arabic Traditions
	‎Chapter 38. The Latin Reception
	‎Chapter 39. Augustine and Macrobius
	‎Chapter 40. The Byzantine Reception
	‎Chapter 41. The Relationship with “On Abstinence”
	‎Chapter 42. A Byzantine Epitome of Porphyry’s Theosophy
	‎Chapter 43. An Arabic Translation of Porphyry’s Theology
	‎Chapter 44. The Philosophy of the Few
	‎Conclusion. A Tentative Reconstruction of the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles
‎Bibliography
‎Index of Authors and Anonymous Works
‎Index of Subjects