Hermann S. Schibli is Visiting Professor of Classics at the Universitat Passau, Germany

The translation is accurate and accompanied with rich annotations ... The book is furnished with a good bibliography and numerous indices, both detailed and accurate. This is a fine work which deserves the attention of all students of the intellectual history of late antiquity.

• 1. THE LIFE OF HIEROCLES ; 2. The Philosophy of Hierocles ; 3. Providence, fate, and free will ; PART II. TRANSLATION OF THE COMMENTARY ON THE GOLDEN VERSES OF THE ; PYTHAGOREANS ; PART III. TRANSLATION OF ON PROVIDENCE

Hermann S. Schibli is Visiting Professor of Classics at the Universitat Passau, Germany

The translation is accurate and accompanied with rich annotations ... The book is furnished with a good bibliography and numerous indices, both detailed and accurate. This is a fine work which deserves the attention of all students of the intellectual history of late antiquity.

• 1. THE LIFE OF HIEROCLES ; 2. The Philosophy of Hierocles ; 3. Providence, fate, and free will ; PART II. TRANSLATION OF THE COMMENTARY ON THE GOLDEN VERSES OF THE ; PYTHAGOREANS ; PART III. TRANSLATION OF ON PROVIDENCE