Platonic theories of prayer / / edited by John Dillon, Andrei Timotin ; contributors, Luc Brisson [and nine others].

• Superior document: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, Volume 19
• TeilnehmendeR: Dillon, John M.,; Timotin, Andrei,; Brisson, Luc,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; Volume 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Front Matter /; Introduction /; The Platonic Philosopher at Prayer /; Modes of Prayer in the Hellenic Tradition /; Philo on Prayer as Devotional Study /; Prayer in Maximus of Tyre /; Awaiting the Sun: A Plotinian Form of Contemplative Prayer /; Porphyry on Prayer /; Prayer in Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles /; Cosmic Etiology and Demiurgic Mimesis in Proclus’ Account of Prayer /; The Transmission of Fire: Proclus’ Theurgical Prayers /; Damascius and Dionysius on Prayer and Silence /; Indexes /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004309004
• ISSN: 1871-188X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by John Dillon, Andrei Timotin ; contributors, Luc Brisson [and nine others].

Platonic Theories of Prayer is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. The volume originates from a panel on the topic held at the 2013 ISNS meeting in Cardiff, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers. Together they offer a comprehensive view of the various roles and levels of prayer characteristic of this period. The concept of prayer is shown to include not just formal petitionary or encomiastic prayer, but also theurgical practices and various states of meditation and ecstasy practised by such major figures as Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus, Damascius or Dionysius the Areopagite.