Thesis
The barbarian Sophist: Clement of Alexandria’s Stromateis and the Second Sophistic
- Abstract:
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Clement of Alexandria, active in the second half of the second century AD, is one of the first Christian authors to explain and defend the nascent religion in the terms of Greek philosophy and in relation to Greek paideia. His major work, the Stromateis, is a lengthy commentary on the true gnosis of the Christian faith, with no apparent overarching structure or organisational principle, replete with quotations from biblical, Jewish, Greek 'gnostic' and Christian ...
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+ Whitmarsh, T
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
+ Edwards, M
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
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- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:11859
- Deposit date:
- 2015-07-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Thomson, S
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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