Religião e magia na antiguidade tardia: do helenismo ao neoplatonismo de Jâmblico de Cálcis

Abstract

During Late Antiquity, the Roman Empire went by a changing period of it’s administrative and social structures, why this context is known as the time of continuities and ruptures with the ancient Roman practices and institutions. This paper aims to analyze Iamblichus of Chalcis’ work De Mysteriis Ægyptiorum, establishing parallels between the author’s historical context and the confluence of Neoplatonism and magic working beside within Iamblichus’ philosophical conceptions.