Commentaire sur les Vers d'or des Pythagoriens suivi de Traité sur la Providence. Bretagne BAH CXXXVI

BAH CXXXVI

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Commentaire sur les Vers d'or des Pythagoriens suivi de Traité sur la Providence. Bretagne BAH CXXXVIThe Commentary on the Golden Verses and the Treatise on Providence are two interesting examples of the writings of the ancient Neoplatonists. The former belongs to the exegetical and protreptic literature and provides an explanation, often ingenious, of a short poem from a Pythagorean milieu: it makes it a tool for the moral as well as intellectual progress of the listener, identifying speculative sections on the gods, demons and the destiny of the