Porphyre, Lettre a Anebon l’Egyptien

edited and translated by Henri-Dominique Saffrey and Alain Philippe Segonds

Extent: 314 pages

Publisher: Les Belles Lettres

Subjects: Classical Studies

Series: Collection des universites de France Serie grecque

Series volume number: 492

Language: French

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(November 2012)

ISBN: 9782251005768

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At the turn of the 3rd century, the two most important Neo-platonic Greek philosophers, Porphyry and Iamblichus, contended with each other following an exchange of letters regarding the main question of traditional Greek religiosity. Porphyry wrote the Letter to Anebo, which in reality is an open letter to Iamblichus; Iamblichus responded with Master Anebos Response to Porphyry, known under the name of De Mysteriis. Unfortunately, Porphyrys Letter to Anebo is now lost; significant fragments, however, still remain, which have been revealed by Eusebius of Caesarea and St. Augustin and by Iamblichus Response. The topics covered by these authors are the classification and the attributions of divine beings, the species of divination and theurgy, as a way to unite with god. Thus, it is interesting to put together the fragments of the Letter to Anebo, to translate them and to comment them, and this work, useful in itself, is also a preliminary requirement to a new study of Iamblichus De Mysteriis, which is soon to be published. French text.

English summary: At the turn of the 3rd century, the two most important Neo-platonic Greek philosophers, Porphyry and Iamblichus, contended with each other following a exchange of letters regarding the main question of traditional Greek religiosity. Porphyry wrote the Letter to Anebo, which in reality is an open letter to Iamblichus. Unfortunately, Porphyry’s Letter to Anebo is now lost; significant fragments, however, still remain, and are presented here in a critical edition. French text. French description: Au tournant du IIIe au IVe siecle, les deux plus importants philosophes grecs neoplatoniciens, Porphyre et Jamblique, se sont affrontes par un echange de lettres sur les principales questions de la religiosite grecque traditionnelle. Porphyre ecrivit la Lettre a Anebon, qui est en realite une lettre ouverte a Jamblique, et Jamblique lui a repondu par la Reponse de Maitre Abamon a Porphyre, connu sous le titre De Mysteriis. Ces deux auteurs ont imagine de confronter leurs positions en faisant usage des pseudonymes egyptiens, Anebon et Abamon. La Lettre de Porphyre a Anebon est malheureusement perdue, mais d’importants fragments en sont connus par Eusebe de Cesaree et saint Augustin, et par la Reponse de Jamblique. Les themes abordes par ces auteurs sont la classification et les attributions des etres divins, les especes de la divination et la theurgie, voie d’union a dieu. Il est donc interessant de rassembler les fragments de la Lettre a Anebon, de les traduire et de les commenter, et ce travail, utile en lui-meme, est aussi un preliminaire oblige a une nouvelle etude du De mysteriis de Jamblique qui suivra dans un avenir proche. Cet ecrit de Porphyre n’a jamais ete traduit et commente en francais, et la ” Collection des universites de France ” se propose d’en publier la premiere edition. Les auteurs presentent une reconstitution et une analyse rationnelle de cet ecrit de Porphyre jusqu’a present neglige. Le livre contient en outre une communication speciale de Madame Elsa Oreal, egyptologue, sur l’explication du nom egyptien Anebon, inconnu de la prosopographie egyptienne.

Avant-propos

Introduction

Chapitre premier : Vie de Porphyre

Eunape, Vie de Porphyre

Chapitre deuxieme : La fiction egyptienne

Porphyre, disciple de Plotin, auteur de la Lettre a Anebon

Communication de Madame Elsa Oreal

Chapitre troisieme : Reception de la Lettre a Anebon

1. Reception de la Lettre a Anebon dans lemonde paien

2. Reception de la Lettre a Anebon dans le monde chretien

Chapitre quatrieme : Sources principales

Eusebe, Preparation Evangelique

S. Augustin, La cite de Dieu

Jamblique, Reponse a Porphyre

Joseph de Tiberiade, Hypomnesticon

Autres sources mineures

Echange de correspondance entre Porphyre et Jamblique

Chapitre cinquieme

Essai de reconstitution de la Lettre a Anebon

Principes de cette edition

Bibliographie

Les Fragments

Texte grec, traduction, commentaire

Appendice

Edited and translated by Henri-Dominique Saffrey
Edited and translated by Alain Philippe Segonds

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