Origen

Course XXV - Teaching 2: Ammonius Saccas and Neoplatonism

Greek culture penetrated the Christian world first through Neoplatonism and later through an adaptation of the latter to Christian dogmas and teachings. In second century, Alexandria was not any more the flourishing city of the Ptolomei.

Course XXVIII - Teaching 11: The Greeks

In the Egean islands, a barbaric people grew up, which would become origin of the Celts and founder of Greece. Seemingly, destiny will leave in the deepest darkness and abandonment those peoples that had to be founders of great races and glorious dynasties.