The Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists is a compendium of biographies relating to pagan philosophers of late antiquity, perhaps composed in an effort to create an alternative to Christian hagiography. It is characterized throughout by an attitude of traditionalist antiquarianism and hostility towards Christianity, and informed by previous experiments in the genre such as the comparable work of Philostratos. It contains the biographies of Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichos, Alypios, Sosipatra, Aedesios of Cappadocia, Sopater, Ablabios, Eustathios, Maximos, Priskos, Ioulianos of Cappadocia, Prohaeresios, Epiphanios, Diophantos the Arab, Sopolis, Himerios, Parnakios, Libanios, Akakios, Nymphidianos, Zeno of Cyprus, Magnos, Oribasios, Ionikos and Chrysanthios, and, likewise, represents one of the latest biographical sources for Neoplatonic intellectuals before the persecutions carried out under the auspices of the Theodosians. It also contains evidence for the practices of Greco-Roman religion in the fourth century, as well as the reactions of its educated practitioners to marginalization and persecution in a Christianized Roman Empire.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".