Ilaria Ramelli & David Konstan, Terms for Eternity: Aiônios and Aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts. Gorgias Press, 2007
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Table of Contents v
Preface vii
Introduction 1
1 Classical Literature from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period 5
a) The Presocratics 6
b) Plato and Platonism 12
c) Aristotle and Hellenistic Philosophy 28
2 From the Septuagint to the New Testament 37
a) The Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint 37
b) Around the Time of Christ 50
c) The New Testament 57
3 The Early Church Fathers and their Contemporaries 71
a) Non-Christian Writers of the Early Empire 71
b) Early Christian and Christianizing Texts 82
c) From Tatian to Clement of Alexandria 95
d) Origen 116
4 Church Fathers after Origen 129
a) From Gregory the Thaumaturge to Athanasius 129
b) The Cappadocian Fathers 172
c) Evagrius to Maximus the Confessor 199
d) Anti-Origenist Writers from Methodius to Epiphanius 226
5 Conclusion 237
Bibliography 241
Index 255
