Isagogical Crossroads from the Early Imperial Age to the End of Antiquity / / edited by Anna Motta, Federico M. Petrucci.

• Superior document: Philosophia Antiqua ; 164
• TeilnehmendeR: Motta, Anna,; Petrucci, Federico M., 1985-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophia Antiqua ; 164.; Philosophia Antiqua Online, Supplement 2022.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Copyright page --; Dedication --; Acknowledgements --; Contributors --; Introduction Towards the Isagogical Crossroads /; Chapter 1 Isagogical Conceptions in the Peripatetic Exegesis of the Post-Hellenistic Age: Aspasius and the Others /; Chapter 2 A Middle-Platonist Plato: Introductory Schemata and the Construction of a System in Diogenes Laertius /; Chapter 3 The Nature of Apuleius' De Platone : An Isagoge? /; Chapter 4 Isagogical Patterns in Porphyry ( Isagoge and Vita Plotini ) /; Chapter 5 From the Stoic Division of Philosophy to the Reading Order of Plato's Dialogues /; Chapter 6 Interpretive Strategies in Proclus' Isagogical Remarks on the Timaeus /; Chapter 7 Eusebius and the Birth of Christian Isagogical Literature /; Chapter 8 Prolegomena to Medicine: The Role of the Hippocratic Aphorismi /; Chapter 9 Isagogical Questions in Hipparchus' Commentary on the Phaenomena /; Chapter 10 Musical Eisagōgai /; Appendix Gaudentius, Introduction to Harmonics . Introduction and Translation /; Bibliography --; General Index --; Index Locorum.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004506195
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Anna Motta, Federico M. Petrucci.

This book explores how introductory methods shaped school practice and intellectual activity in various fields of thought of the Early Imperial Age and Late Antiquity. The isagogical crossroads-the intersection of philosophical, philological, religious and scientific introductory methods-embody a fascinating narrative of the methods regulating ancient readers' approach to authoritative texts and disciplines. The strongly innovative character of this book consists exactly in the attempt to explore isagogical issues in a wide-ranging and comprehensive perspective-from philosophy to religion, from medicine to exact sciences-with the aim of detecting connections, reciprocal influences, and interactions shaping the intellectual environment of the Early Imperial Age and Late Antiquity.