

Porphyry and the debate over traditional religious practices
pp. 21-29
in: Panayiota Vassilopoulou, Stephen L. Clark (eds), Late antique epistemology, Berlin, Springer, 2009Abstract
This chapter will examine the references made by Porphyry to pagan rituals in the De Philosophia ex oraculis in order to understand better the author's attitude towards traditional religious practices.