Am curious abt the Chaldean influence on the later academy. any info would be helpful..
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mostly interested in context
to be more specific, Proclus, Iamblichus, et al seemed to take a big interest in the Chaldean Oracles. It’s been a very profitable trail of inquiry for many years, - esp Hekate Soteira by Sarah Johnston, G. Shaw ‘Theurgy…’ and Thomas Taylor.
The Oracles was reported to be required reading at the academy, and was known into the renaissance.
But I wonder abt what happened historically, starting from the neoplatonists and going backwards to Plato and before.
A shot in the dark I know : ) The thing I love abt classics is that it can be indeterminate growth in both directions.
a nexus between the oral and written? I was reading lately how the Celts passed on oral histories of their ancestors back to the Paleolithic
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