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Brill's companion to the reception of Plato in antiquity / / edited by Harold Tarrant [and three others].

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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as philosopher, as author, and more generally as a central figure in the intellectual heritage of Classical Greece, from his death in the fourth century BC...

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Superior document:Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 13
TeilnehmendeR:
Tarrant, Harold,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 13.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 657 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Early Developments in Reception
  • Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of Philosophy / Phillip Sidney Horky
  • The Influence of the Platonic Dialogues on Stoic Ethics from Zeno to Panaetius of Rhodes1 / Francesca Alesse
  • Plato and the Freedom of the New Academy / Charles E. Snyder
  • Return to Plato and Transition to Middle Platonism in Cicero1 / François Renaud
  • Early Imperial Reception of Plato
  • From Fringe Reading to Core Curriculum: Commentary, Introduction, and Doctrinal Summary / Harold Tarrant
  • Philo of Alexandria / Sami Yli-Karjanmaa
  • Plutarch of Chaeronea and the Anonymous Commentator on the Theaetetus / Mauro Bonazzi
  • Theon of Smyrna: Re-thinking Platonic Mathematics in Middle Platonism / Federico M. Petrucci
  • Cupid’s Swan from the Academy (De Plat. 1.1, 183): Apuleius’ Reception of Plato / Geert Roskam
  • Alcinous’ Reception of Plato / Carl S. O’Brien
  • Numenius: Portrait of a Platonicus / Polymnia Athanassiadi
  • Galen and Middle Platonism: The Case of the Demiurge1 / Julius Rocca
  • Variations of Receptions of Plato during the Second Sophistic1 / Ryan C. Fowler
  • Early Christianity and Late Antique Platonism
  • Origen to Evagrius / Ilaria Ramelli
  • Sethian Gnostic Appropriations of Plato / John D. Turner
  • Plotinus and Platonism / Lloyd P. Gerson
  • Porphyry / Michael Chase
  • The Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides / Dennis Clark
  • Iamblichus, the Commentary Tradition, and the Soul / John Finamore
  • Amelius and Theodore of Asine / Dirk Baltzly
  • Plato’s Political Dialogues in the Writings of Julian the Emperor / Dominic J. O’Meara
  • Plato’s Women Readers / Crystal Addey
  • Calcidius / Christina Hoenig
  • Augustine’s Plato / Gerd Van Riel
  • Orthodoxy and Allegory: Syrianus’ Metaphysical Hermeneutics / Sarah Klitenic Wear
  • Hermias: On Plato’s Phaedrus / Harold Tarrant and Dirk Baltzly
  • Proclus and the Authority of Plato / Jan Opsomer
  • Damascius the Platonic Successor: Socratic Activity and Philosophy in the 6th Century CE / Sara Ahbel-Rappe
  • The Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy / Danielle A. Layne
  • Olympiodorus of Alexandria / Michael Griffin
  • Simplicius of Cilicia: Plato’s Last Interpreter / Gary Gabor
  • Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography.

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