Brill's companion to the reception of Plato in antiquity /

Brill's companion to the reception of Plato in antiquity /

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 centu...

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Other Authors: Tarrant, Harold., Layne, Danielle A., Baltzly, Dirk., Renaud, François.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2018.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 13.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online IV, ISBN: 9789004360280.

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Plato > Criticism and interpretation.

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Call Number: B395 .B755 2018

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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.