The Philosophical Orations Author:Maximus, Maximus of Tyre Trapp offers a new annotated translation of the philosophical orations of Maximus of Tyre. These orations cover a range of topics from Platonic theology to the proper attitude to pleasure. They open a window onto the second century's world of the Second Sophistic and Christian apologists, as well as on to that of the Florentine Platonists of the... more » later fifteenth century who read, studied, and imitated the orations.« less