Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- I Preliminaries -- II Organization of This Volume -- Introduction: The Old Academy to Cicero -- I...
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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- I Preliminaries -- II Organization of This Volume -- Introduction: The Old Academy to Cicero -- I The Heirs of Plato -- II Aristotle and His School -- III The "First Interpreter" and the Academy under Polemo -- IV The Hellenistic Philosophies in Debate -- V The World of Cicero -- Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of Philosophy -- I Introduction -- II Speusippus' Mathematikos: The Hunt for Knowledge -- III Xenocrates on the Happy Man -- IV Conclusion -- The Influence of the Platonic Dialogues on Stoic Ethics from Zeno to Panaetius of Rhodes -- Plato and the Freedom of the New Academy -- I Introduction -- II A New Academy -- III From Polemo to Arcesilaus -- IV From Carneades to Cicero -- Return to Plato and Transition to Middle Platonism in Cicero1 -- I Cicero's Reception in Outline -- 1) Testimony to a Pivotal Period -- 2) Rebirth of Platonism -- 3) Writing of Dialogues -- II Two Case Studies: Gorgias and Timaeus -- 1) Gorgias: Philosophy, Rhetoric and Public life -- 2) The Timaeus: Pythagoreanism and Middle Platonism -- Introduction: Early Imperial Reception of Plato -- From Fringe Reading to Core Curriculum: Commentary, Introduction, and Doctrinal Summary -- I The Problem -- II The Commentary-like Works -- III Introductions to Reading Plato -- IV Doctrinal Summaries -- V Conclusion -- Philo of Alexandria -- I Introduction: Philo and His Project -- 1) Philo's Relation to Plato in Historical Perspective -- 2) Philo's References to Plato and Socrates -- 3) The Corpus Used -- II Philo's Use of Plato -- III Conclusion -- Plutarch of Chaeronea and the Anonymous Commentator on the Theaetetus -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV Theon of Smyrna: Re-thinking Platonic Mathematics in Middle Platonism -- I Nicomachus: "Platonically Orientated" Mathematics -- II Theon's Expositio and Platonic Mathematical Exegesis -- 1) Theon's Expositio -- 2) Other Technical Exegeses -- III Epilogue -- Cupid's Swan from the Academy (De Plat. 1.1, 183): Apuleius' Reception of Plato -- I By Way of Introduction: Methodological Orientation -- II A Quick Look at the Broad Outlines of Apuleius' Platonism -- 1) Eruditio -- 2) Ad bene vivendum -- 3) Ad bene dicendum -- III The Plato of Apuleius' Platonism -- Alcinous' Reception of Plato -- I Introduction -- II Alcinous on World-Generation -- III Alcinous' Psychology -- IV Conclusion -- Numenius: Portrait of a Platonicus -- I Realia -- II Identity -- III On the Good -- IV Myth and its exegesis -- V The Teacher -- VI The epigoni -- Galen and Middle Platonism: The Case of the Demiurge1 -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V Conclusion -- Variations of Receptions of Plato during the Second Sophistic1 -- I The Greek Philosopher-Sophist Dio -- II The Literary Philosopher: Plutarch -- III The Greek Orator: Aristides -- IV The Satirist: Lucian -- V The Latin Sophist: Apuleius -- VI The Platonic Rhetor: Maximus -- VIII The Doctor: Galen -- IX The Greek Novelist: Longus -- X The New Rite: Justin Martyr and Clement109 -- XI Conclusion -- Introduction: Early Christianity and Late Antique Platonism -- Origen to Evagrius -- I The Background: Clement -- II Select Examples from Origen (with a Hint at Eusebius) -- III Select Points in Nyssen -- V Some Case Studies from Evagrius -- Sethian Gnostic Appropriations of Plato -- I Introduction -- II The Metaphysics of the Sethian Platonizing Treatises -- III Allogenes: A Major Sethian Gnostic Appropriation of Plato -- IV Further Instances of Sethian Appropriations of Plato's Dialogues -- 1) Intelligible Reality 2) The Modes of Being and Non-Being -- 3) Dialectic -- 4) The Ascent and Descent of the Soul -- 5) The Demiurge of the Timaeus and the Sethian Creator -- IV Conclusion -- Plotinus and Platonism -- I Introduction -- II -- III -- Porphyry -- I Introduction -- II Porphyry on Substance -- III Porphyry on Creation in the Timaeus -- IV Porphyry on Matter and Evil -- VI Porphyry on Fate, Providence and Free will -- VII Conclusion -- The Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides -- Iamblichus, the Commentary Tradition, and the Soul -- I Iamblichus and the Platonic Commentaries -- II The Iamblichean Universe and the Place of Gods, Superior Classes, and Human Souls Within It -- III Iamblichus and the Position of Soul in the Platonic Universe -- IV Conclusion -- Amelius and Theodore of Asine -- I Evidential Prolegomenon -- II Platonic Commentators? -- III Their Engagement with Plato's Dialogues -- IV Plato and Others -- V Conclusions -- Plato's Political Dialogues in the Writings of Julian the Emperor -- I Julian's Image of Plato -- II Julian's Knowledge and Use of Plato's Dialogues -- III Julian's Use of Plato's Political Dialogues -- IV Conclusion -- Plato's Women Readers -- I Introduction -- II Methodology -- III Women in Plato's Academy -- IV Women Reading Plato in the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Periods -- V Women Reading Plato in Late Antiquity: Neoplatonism -- 1) Women in the Circle of Plotinus and Porphyry -- 2) Women in Iamblichus' Circle and among His Philosophic Successors -- 3) Women in the Athenian School: Asclepigeneia -- 4) Women in the Alexandrian School: Hypatia -- VI Conclusion -- Calcidius -- I Calcidius' Identity3 -- II Calcidius' Sources -- III The Project -- IV Translation and Commentary -- Augustine's Plato -- I Augustine's "Handbook Plato" -- II Augustine's Sources -- Orthodoxy and Allegory: Syrianus' Metaphysical Hermeneutics I Introduction: Syrianus' Exegetical Principles -- II yrianus on Plato's Phaedo: Textual Fidelity and Its Limits -- III Finding Symbols of Divine Orders in Plato's Parmenides and Philebus -- IV Allegory and Mythology in Plato's Timaeus -- V Conclusion -- VI Appendix: Syrianus on Plato: Testimonia of Syrianus -- Hermias: On Plato's Phaedrus -- I The Importance of the in Phaedrum -- II The skopos of the Phaedrus and Its Structure -- III Intertextual Links -- IV Socratic Expertise and Socratic Ignorance -- V The Nature and Purpose of Myth -- VI Written and Unwritten Plato -- VII Conclusion -- Proclus and the Authority of Plato -- I Diadochos and Teacher -- II Proclus' Works -- III Plato the Theologian -- IV Exegesis and the Modes of Teaching -- Damascius the Platonic Successor: Socratic Activity and Philosophy in the 6th Century CE -- I Introduction -- II Damascius in Context: Philosophy's "Extreme Old Age" -- III Damascius the Platonic Commentator -- IV The Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, a Socratic Treatise? -- The Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy -- I Introduction -- II The Life of Plato -- 1) Divine Kinship and Philosophical Superiority -- 2) Socrates and Skepticism -- III Writing and Dialogue Form -- 1) The Underlying Cause of Writing and the Unwritten Doctrines -- 2) Taxis -- 3) The Dialogue as a Microcosm -- Olympiodorus of Alexandria -- I Plato and the Platonic Curriculum -- II Works -- III Interpretation of Plato and Thought -- IV Conclusions -- Simplicius of Cilicia: Plato's Last Interpreter -- I Introduction -- II Simplicius' General Approach to Reading Plato -- III Specifics of Simplicius' Approach -- IV Simplicius on Misinterpreting Plato -- V Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
