The conflict of religions during the Christianization of the Greco-Roman aristocracy in Late Antiquity is typified by Synesius (ca. A.D. 365/70-414?), an old-fashioned pagan Neoplatonist who studied under Hypatia at…

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Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs. Tome 2 / publiee… par M. Berthelot, …; avec la collaboration de M. Ch.-Em. Ruelle, … Date de l'edition originale: 1887-1888

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