Women and the Female in Neoplatonism /

Sosipatra, Hypatia, Macrina: some of the most famous female philosophers of antiquity were connected to Neoplatonism. But what does it mean to be a woman philosopher in late antiquity? How is the inclusive nature of the Neoplatonic schools connected to their ethical, political, and metaphysical idea...

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Other Authors: Schultz, Jana (Editor), Wilberding, James (Editor)

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Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; 30.

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505 0 0 |t Acknowledgments --  |t Abbreviations --  |t Notes on Contributors --  |t Introduction /  |r Jana Schultz and James Wilberding --  |t Part 1 The Historical Presence of Women in Neoplatonic Schools --  |t 1 Diotima, Sosipatra and Hypatia: Methodological Reflections on the Study of Female Philosophers in the Platonic Tradition /  |r Crystal Addey --  |t Part 2 The Status of Women in Neoplatonic Socio-political Theory --  |t 2 Women in Plotinus /  |r James Wilberding --  |t 3 Marcella and Porphyry /  |r Luc Brisson --  |t 4 On the Equality of Women and Men in Late Antique Platonism: Proclus, Julian and Philip the Philosopher /  |r Dominic O'Meara --  |t 5 Theodorus of Asine on the Equality of the Sexes: Traces of a Rhetorical Trope in the Fourth Century CE /  |r John Dillon --  |t 6 The Myth of Er and Female Guardians in Proclus' Republic Commentary /  |r Dirk Baltzly --  |t 7 Damascius on the Virtue of Women and Their Relation to Men /  |r Jana Schultz --  |t Part 3 Female Principles in Neoplatonic Metaphysics and Science --  |t 8 Femininity in Porphyry's On Abstinence /  |r Miira Tuominen --  |t 9 A Match Made in Heaven: The Metaphysics of Aphrodite in Neoplatonic Thinkers /  |r Marije Martijn --  |t 10 Neoplatonic Motives in Emperor Julian's Hymn to the Mother of the Gods /  |r Christoph Helmig --  |t 11 Otherwise Than the Father: Night and the Maternal Causes in Proclus' Theological Metaphysics /  |r Danielle Layne --  |t Part 4 A Concluding Look at Two Christian Neoplatonists --  |t 12 Macrina's Method: Reason and Reasoning in Gregory of Nyssa's On Soul and Resurrection /  |r Peter Adamson --  |t 13 What Did Michael Psellos Say about Women in the 11th Century AD ? /  |r Denis Walter --  |t Index Locorum --  |t Index of Names and Subjects. 
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