Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Books

Trade Review'...will undoubtedly remain the standard work on Hierocles for Neoplatonic scholars...' H.S. Schibli, Ancient Philosophy, 1991. '...l'analyse de l'oeuvre est un acquis définitif...' Jean-Pierre Rothschild, Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, 1989. 'Verf. gelingt es, das Werk des relativ vergessenen Alexandriners zu vermitteln...' L. Lies, Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie, 1991. '...cet important volume...' Omer Ballériaux, L'Antiquité Classique, 1988.

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Trade Review'...a penetrating and thorough analysis...' James T.H. Martin, Thomist, 1990. '...a useful addition to Aristotelian scholarship that should not be missed...' Richard D. McKirahan, Jr., Ancient Philosophy, 1991. '...advances a bold thesis which future scholars must consider...' Lawrence P. Schrenk, Review of Metaphysics, 1989.

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Trade Review'...of interest to many students of antiquity.' Ronald F. Hock, The second Century, 1989.

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Trade Review'...a solid summary and analysis of two often difficult ancient texts.' Lawrence P. Schrenk, Review of Metaphysics, 1989. '...nous éclaire grandement sur des questions avant tout philosophiques. Il n'est pas moins important pour les philosophes du droit.' Stamatios Tzitzis, Archives de Philosophie de Droit, 1989. '...un livre important.' Léon J. Elders, Revue Thomiste, 1989.

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Trade Review'...this is a book which can be recommended with some enthusiasm. A. brings out important features of the Republic which other scholars have neglected and his discussions of individual passages are full of insights.' R.F. Stalley, The Classical Review, 1989. '...his fine scholarship and scrupulous attention to detail means that this work will serve as a useful and important sourcebook...' Peter J. Steinberger, Ancient Philosophy, 1993.

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Trade Review'Voici un ouvrage...fondamental pour l'établissement du texte de la République de Platon.' Marcel Meulder, L'Antiquité Classique, 1991.

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Trade Review'Par la rigueur de son travail et l'originalité de son approche, J. Bussanich s'impose dorénavant comme un auteur de référence dans les études plotiniennes.' Jean-François Balaudé, Revue des Etudes Grecques, 1990. '...a major and thought-provoking contribution to Plotinian scholarship...a unique and invaluable commentary on one of the most challenging problems in Greek philosophy.' Kevin Corrigan, Ancient Philosophy, 1992. 'Future students of Plotinus will have to take into account this learned an carefully written work.' Leo J. Elders, Review of Metaphysics, 1993.

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Book SynopsisThe French translation with commentary, the first in a modern language, allows historians of philosophy access to a fundamental work for the understanding of medieval and modern thought. They could also explore more easily the great variety of information contained in the commentary of Simplicius on the history of the exegis of the Catégories of Aristotle, and more generally on the history of comparative philosophy of Simplicius. They will discover some important aspects in the actual thought of Simplicius, which so far has hardly been explored.Trade Review'This ambitious project is off to an impressive start...lucidly analysed...we can be grateful for a lot of unexpected material...' A.C. Lloyd, The Classical Review, 1991. '...all three volumes significantly advance our understanding both of Aristotle's commentators and, through them, of Aristotle himself.' R.W. Sharples, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1993.

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Book SynopsisThe French translation with commentary, the first in a modern language, allows historians of philosophy access to a fundamental work for the understanding of medieval and modern thought. They could also explore more easily the great variety of information contained in the commentary of Simplicius on the history of the exegis of the Catégories of Aristotle, and more generally on the history of comparative philosophy of Simplicius. They will discover some important aspects in the actual thought of Simplicius, which so far has hardly been explored.

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Trade Review'Future commentators on Boethius cannot safely neglect Magee's book.' Sten Ebbesen, Vivarium, 1991. 'M. brings an impressive amount of learning and care to a large number of passages he has culled from a wide range of texts...a useful source-book...' Wolfgang Mann, Gnomon, 1993.

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Trade Review"...the chief thesis constitutes a plausible, unificatory hypothesis..." Stephen R.L. Clark, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1994.

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Book SynopsisDuring the past three decades Jaap Mansfeld, Professor of Ancient Philosophy in Utrecht, has built up a formidable reputation as a leading scholar in his field. His work has concentrated on the Presocratics, Hellenistic Philosophy, the sources of our knowledge of ancient philosophy (esp. doxography) and the history of scholarship. In honour of his sixtieth birthday, colleagues and friends have contributed a collection of articles which represent the state of the art in the study of the history of ancient philosophy and frequently concentrate on subjects in which the honorand has made important discoveries. The 22 contributors include M. Baltes, J. Barnes, J. Brunschwig, W.M. Calder III, J. Dillon, P.L. Donini, J. Glucker, A.A. Long, L.M. de Rijk, D. Sedley, P. Schrijvers, and M. Vegetti. The volume concludes with a complete bibliography of Jaap Mansfeld's scholarly work so far.Trade Review'There is a fine tradition of Dutch (let alone Dutch-published) ancient philosophical Festschriften...In my opinion, however, this collection of essays is the best of the lot.' Robin Waterfield, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1997.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents 17 articles by Woldemar Görler, published during the last 25 years, some of them not easily accessible hitherto. Most of them treat details of the history of the Hellenistic Academy and Cicero. Other papers explore the aftermath of Hellenistic thought in Lucilius, Lucretius, and Seneca, the literary form of Roman philosophical treatises, and Cicero’s personal interpretation of Academic scepticism. All contributions are based on close reading of the source material. No attempt is made to harmonize conflicting evidence. Instead, different stages of the school discussions and some gradual changes in philosophical doctrine emerge more clearly. Special attention is paid to the conversion of Greek terms into Latin, in some cases implying unexpected consequences in meaning.

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Book SynopsisThe story of Apollonius King of Tyre has rightly been called the most popular romance of the Middle Ages. From Iceland to Greece, from Spain to Russia, versions of this novel are recorded. It is the variation among the Latin versions and the numerous vernacular adaptations that make this story especially interesting. Shakespeare used and adapted it in his Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Its plot continues to fascinate us. Incest, deception, pirates, famine, sex and shipwreck form its tasty ingredients. Its links with the Greek novel, which today stands in the centre of scholarly interest, are striking. In this commentary the author even attempts to show that the novel originated in Greece, or more precisely Asia Minor, possibly inTarsus. The two recensions (RA and RB) are compared line by line, generally given preference to RA. All these aspects make the present book attractive to scholars of many different disciplines.

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Book SynopsisThere is a scholarly consensus on the crucial role played by the philosophers of late Antiquity, especially the dominant figure of Plotinus, in reshaping the thought of Plato and Aristotle. It is also well-established that the rise of the Arabic philosophy was fostered by the movement of the Graeco-Arabic transmission. However, the development of coherent theories describing the role of late ancient philosophical thought in the creation of Arabic philosophy has been hampered by poor interaction between the various disciplines involved. The Libraries of the Neoplatonists, with its twin focus on the textual transmission within the schools of late Antiquity and on the dissemination of philosophical writings in the Syriac-speaking and Arabic-speaking areas, provides a magisterial survey of the Neoplatonic transmission of the Greek heritage to later ages and various linguistic areas.Trade Review"D'Ancona is to be congratulated for her success in the appropriately Neoplatonic task of bringing some degree of unity to a bewildering multiplicity of sources and problems, many of which are rarely discussed at all, never mind together in one place." Peter Adamson in Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science 2010

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Book SynopsisCe volume présente une nouvelle édition et la première traduction dans une langue moderne du Lexique platonicien de Timée le Sophiste. Il présente également une histoire, riche de nouveaux matériaux, de la lexicographie platonicienne ancienne. Le texte est préfacé d’une longue introduction de Jonathan Barnes. This book contains a new edition of the Greek text of the Lexicon to Plato by Timaeus the Sophist. There is a rich commentary, and a French translation―the first translation of the work into a modern language. The text is prefaced by a long introduction, by Jonathan Barnes.

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Book SynopsisDavid, a member of the Platonic school in Alexandria in the sixth century, is credited with several commentaries on Aristotle’s logic: those commentaries, and their Armenian translations, form the subject of this book. An introduction, which discusses David and his place in the Greek and the Armenian traditions, is followed by a series of studies of the relations between the Greek texts and their Armenian translations: the aims are, first, to assess the value of the translations for the constitution of the original Greek, and secondly, to consider the ways in which the Armenian translations adapted the texts to suit their new readership. More generally, the book is concerned with the ways in which Greek thought was exported abroad—to Armenia and to Syria: it is required reading for anyone who is interested in the circulation of ideas between east and west. Contributors include: Sen Arevshatyan, Jonathan Barnes, Valentina Calzolari, Henri Hugonnard-Roche, Gohar Muradyan, Michael Papazian, Manea Shirinian, Clive Sweeting, Albert Stepanyan, Aram Topchyan.Trade Review"On this subject of importance this is an important book, offering a valuable insight into the present state of our knowledge, and indicating how that may be expanded by subsequent volumes in this series." John Watt, Sehepunkte (www.sehepunkte.de/2011/01/16958.html)

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Book SynopsisWhat is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? The contributors to the present volume of essays have tackled this seemingly simple, but in reality difficult and controversial, question, by drawing on their specialised knowledge of the surviving texts of leading ancient philosophers, from the Presocratics to Augustine, through Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus. These contributions, which reflect the range of methods and approaches currently used in the study of ancient texts, are offered as a tribute to the scholarship of Denis O’Brien, one of the most original and penetrating students of the thousand-year period of intense philosophical activity that constitutes ancient philosophy. Contributors include: T. Ebert, F. Fronterrota, C.J. Gill, C. Huffman, N. Notomi, J.-C. Picot, J.-F. Pradeau, M. Rashed, K. Sayre, R.K. Sprague, and J.G.C. Strachan. Publications by Denis O’Brien: • Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 1. Democritus: Weight and Size. An Exercise in the Reconstruction of Early Greek Philosophy, ISBN: 978 90 04 06134 7 (Out of print) • Pour interpréter Empédocle, ISBN: 978 90 04 06249 8 (Out of print) • Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 2. Plato: Weight and Sensation. The Two Theories of the 'Timaeus', ISBN: 978 90 04 06934 3 • Théodicée plotinienne, théodicée gnostique, ISBN: 978 90 04 09618 9Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors I. PRESOCRATICS 1. Some Remarks on noein in Parmenides, F. Fronterotta 2. The Structure of the Eye and its Cosmological Function in Empedocles. Reconstruction of Fragment 84, M. Rashed 3. Empedocles, Fragment 115.3: Can One of the Blessed Pollute his Limbs with Blood?, J.-C. Picot 4. Philolaus and the Central Fire, C. Huffman II. PLATO 5. Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Alcibiades, C. Gill 6. Socrates on the Definition of Figure in the Meno, T. Ebert 7. Plato's Phaedo as Protreptic, R.K. Sprague 8. An Absurd Question: Plato, Symposium 199 d, J.C.G. Strachan 9. Tumescence and Spiritual Seed in the Phaedrus, J.-F. Pradeau 10. Plato against Parmenides: Sophist 236D – 242B, N. Notomi 11. Dialectic by Negation in Three Late Dialogues, K. Sayre A Detailed Bibliography of Denis O’Brien’s Works Index locorum General Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? The contributors to the present volume of essays have tackled this seemingly simple, but in reality difficult and controversial, question, by drawing on their specialised knowledge of the surviving texts of leading ancient philosophers, from the Presocratics to Augustine, through Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus. These contributions, which reflect the range of methods and approaches currently used in the study of ancient texts, are offered as a tribute to the scholarship of Denis O’Brien, one of the most original and penetrating students of the thousand-year period of intense philosophical activity that constitutes ancient philosophy. Contributors include: T. Buchheim, J. Cleary, K. Corrigan, D. Evans, G. Gurtler S.J., C. Horn, J.-M. Narbonne, C. Natali, G. O'Daly, F. Schroeder, S. Stern-Gillet, P. Thillet, and C. Viano. Publications by Denis O’Brien: • Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 1. Democritus: Weight and Size. An Exercise in the Reconstruction of Early Greek Philosophy, ISBN: 978 90 04 06134 7 (Out of print) • Pour interpréter Empédocle, ISBN: 978 90 04 06249 8 (Out of print) • Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 2. Plato: Weight and Sensation. The Two Theories of the 'Timaeus', ISBN: 978 90 04 06934 3 • Théodicée plotinienne, théodicée gnostique, ISBN: 978 90 04 09618 9Table of ContentsPreface Note on Contributors I. ARISTOTLE 1. Aristotle’s Conception of Dunamis and Technē, C. Natali 2. Aristotle and the Starting Point of Moral Development: The Notion of Natural Virtue, C. Viano 3. Akrasia and Moral Education in Aristotle, J. Cleary 4. Effective Primary Causes: The Notion of Contact and the Possibility of Acting without Being Affected in Aristotle’s De Generatione et Corruptione, T. Buchheim II. PLATO AND HIS HEIRS: FROM APULEIUS TO AUGUSTINE 5. The Organisation of the Soul: Some Overlooked Aspects of Interpretation from Plato to Late Antiquity, K. Corrigan 6. The Final Metamorphosis: Narrative Voice in the Prologue of Apuleius' Golden Ass, F.M. Schroeder 7. Plotinus: Omnipresence and Transcendence in VI 4-5[22-23], G. Gurtler S.J. 8. The Concept of Will in Plotinus, C. Horn 9. Divine Freedom in Plotinus and Iamblichus (Tractate VI 8 (39) 7, 11-15 and De Mysteriis III, 17-20), J.-M. Narbonne 10. Was the Vita Plotini known in Arab Philosophical Circles?, P. Thillet 11. Friendship and Transgression: Luminosus limes amicitiae (Augustine, Confessions 2.2.2) and the Themes of Confessions 2, G. O’Daly 12. Augustine and the Philosophical Foundations of Sincerity, S. Stern-Gillet III. EPILOGUE: INTERPRETATION IN RETROSPECT 13. Innovation and Continuity in the History of Philosophy, D. Evans A Detailed Bibliography of Denis O’Brien’s Works Index locorum General Index

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Book SynopsisThe nature and existence of time is a fascinating and puzzling feature of human life and awareness. This book integrates interdisciplinary work and approaches from such fields as physics, psychology, biology, phenomenology, and technology studies with philosophical analyses and considerations to explain a number of facets of the perennnial question of time's nature and existence, both in contemporary and in its initial classical Greek context; and it then explores and explains two of the most influential investigations of time in classical Western thought: Aristotle's, as presented in his Physics, and the (neo)Platonist Plotinus' in his treatise On Time and Eternity. Original interpretative perspectives are argued in both cases, and special attention is paid to Plotinus as partly responding to and critiquing Aristotle's account.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the first collection of scholarly articles in any modern language devoted to Aristotle’s De caelo. It grew out of series of workshops held at Princeton, Cambridge, and Paris in the late 1990’s. Since Aristotle’s De caelo had a major influence on cosmological thinking until the time of Galileo and Kepler and helped to shape the way in which Western civilization imagined its natural environment and place at the center of the universe, familiarity with the main doctrines of the De caelo is a prerequisite for an understanding of much of the thought and culture of antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Book SynopsisAncient doxography, particularly as distilled in the work on problems of physics by Aëtius, is a vital source for our knowledge of early Greek philosophy up to the first century BCE. But its purpose and method, and also its wider intellectual context, are by no means easy to understand. The present volume contains 19 essays written between 1989 and 2009 in which the authors grapple with various aspects of the doxographical tradition and its main representatives. The essays examine the origins of the doxographical method in the work of Aristotle and Theophrastus and also provide valuable insights into the works of other authors such as Epicurus, Chrysippus, Lucretius, Cicero, Philo of Alexandria and Seneca. The collection can be read as a companion collection to the two earlier volumes of Aëtiana published by the two authors in this series (1997, 2009).Trade Review"We tend to think of doxography as a naïve form of history of philosophy. Mansfeld and Runia succeed in showing us that the Aëtian compendium of physical doctrines is anything but a naïve collection of physical opinions." – Andrea Falcon, in: BMCR 2010.04.30 "Il s'agit d'un travail monumental et absolument remarquable, non seulement parce qu'on a là un texte et une colonne [...] qui a retrouvé une cohérence propre, mais aussi parce que les auteurs donnent au lecteur tous les éléments et tous les outils pour apprécier la pertinence de la reconstruction qu'ils proposent. C'est un progrès scientifique considérable, et nous ne pouvons que souhaiter que ces résultats soient systématiquement pris en compte désormais dans toute étude utilisant «Aëtius», fût-ce comme entreprise titanesque [...]" – Claire Louget, in: Revue philosophique de Louvain 1/2012

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Book SynopsisThis volume, the twenty-fifth year of published proceedings, contains seven papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2008-9. The papers treat topics including: mind and body in Heraclitus and Anaxagoras, a reconsideration of Socratic intellectualism, the positive motivational intent of Platonic poetics, politics and dialectic in the Statesman, Aristotle on community life, the nature of virtue according to Chrysippus, and the beauty of scientific knowledge in Proclus.Table of ContentsPreface: John J. Cleary, 1949-2009 Addendum 2010 COLLOQUIUM 1 Thought and Body in Heraclitus and Anaxagoras PATRICIA CURD Commentary on Curd KEITH MCPARTLAND Curd/McPartland Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 2 Living Well and Living Together: Politics VII 1-3 and the Discovery of the Common Life EUGENE GARVER Commentary on Garver THORNTON LOCKWOOD Garver/Lockwood Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 3 Why Beauty is Truth in All We Know: Aesthetics and Mimesis in Neoplatonic Science MARIJE MARTIJN Commentary on Martijn DMITRI NIKULIN Martijn/Nikulin Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 4 Politics and Dialectic in Plato’s Statesman DIMITRI EL MURR Commentary on El Murr CHRISTINE J. THOMAS El Murr/Thomas Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 5 Is Virtue Knowledge? Socratic Intellectualism Reconsidered JÖRG HARDY Commentary on Hardy DAVID ROOCHNIK Hardy/Roochnik Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 6 On the Chrysippean Thesis that the Virtues are Poia BERNARD COLLETTE-DUČIĆ Commentary on Collette-Dučić BRIAN EARL JOHNSON Collette-Dučić/Johnson Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 7 Happiness, Justice, and Poetry in Plato’s Republic PIERRE DESTRÉE Commentary on Destrée MAY SIM Destrée/Sim Bibliography About our Contributors Index of Names

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Book SynopsisThis volume, the twenty-fifth year of published proceedings, contains seven papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2008-9. The papers treat topics including: mind and body in Heraclitus and Anaxagoras, a reconsideration of Socratic intellectualism, the positive motivational intent of Platonic poetics, politics and dialectic in the Statesman, Aristotle on community life, the nature of virtue according to Chrysippus, and the beauty of scientific knowledge in Proclus.Table of ContentsPreface: John J. Cleary, 1949-2009 Addendum 2010 COLLOQUIUM 1 Thought and Body in Heraclitus and Anaxagoras PATRICIA CURD Commentary on Curd KEITH MCPARTLAND Curd/McPartland Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 2 Living Well and Living Together: Politics VII 1-3 and the Discovery of the Common Life EUGENE GARVER Commentary on Garver THORNTON LOCKWOOD Garver/Lockwood Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 3 Why Beauty is Truth in All We Know: Aesthetics and Mimesis in Neoplatonic Science MARIJE MARTIJN Commentary on Martijn DMITRI NIKULIN Martijn/Nikulin Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 4 Politics and Dialectic in Plato’s Statesman DIMITRI EL MURR Commentary on El Murr CHRISTINE J. THOMAS El Murr/Thomas Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 5 Is Virtue Knowledge? Socratic Intellectualism Reconsidered JÖRG HARDY Commentary on Hardy DAVID ROOCHNIK Hardy/Roochnik Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 6 On the Chrysippean Thesis that the Virtues are Poia BERNARD COLLETTE-DUČIĆ Commentary on Collette-Dučić

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Book SynopsisJohn J. Cleary (1949–2009) was an internationally recognised authority in many aspects of ancient philosophy. As well as penetrating and original studies of Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus, he was particularly interested in the philosophy of mathematics, and ancient theories of education. The essays included in this collection display Cleary’s range of expertise and originality of approach. Cleary was especially attentive to the problems involved in the interpretation of a philosophical text: in his reading of Plato he recognised the special status of dialogue as a privileged mode of philosophical writing. His underlying concern was the open-ended character of philosophy itself, to be pursued with intellectual rigour and respect both for the question and one’s interlocutor. These collected essays are representative of John Cleary’s philosophical life’s work.

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Book SynopsisThe Letter before the Spirit contains original articles based on the papers given at the Huygens ING (The Hague, 2009) on the importance of text editions for the study of the transmission of Aristotle’s works in the Semitico-Latin translations and their commentary tradition in the medieval world. Authors underline this importance in general overviews and theoretical outlines and present their own work on various text editions, ranging from Syriac and Arabic to Hebrew and (Graeco) Latin, and from Aristotle, Avicenna and Averroes to Plotinus, Michael Scot, William of Moerbeke, Judah ha-Kohen, Barhebraeus and Albertus Magnus. Editors are further encouraged to cross boundaries between disciplines and study the translation tradition of Aristotle’s works in its entirety.Trade Review"...a useful volume for scholars of many different fields." Cecilica Martini Bonadeo in Studia graeco-arabica 3 (2013), 254-259. "...the contributors demonstrate the importance of text-editing in medieval studies, focusing especially on the editing of medieval translations of Aristotle not only into Latin but also into Syriac, Arabic and Hebrew." Pieter De Leemans in Bulletin de Philosophie Médievale 54 (2012), 10.

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Book SynopsisIn this annotated critical edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda Stefan Alexandru explores and utilizes for the first time numerous previously neglected textual sources, written in Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew. The twelfth book of the Metaphysics, originally an independent treatise, is crucial for the understanding of Aristotle’s philosophy, primarily because the doctrine of the Unmoved Mover is nowhere else set forth in greater detail. Not only all the forty-two formerly known Greek codices have been collated, but also commentaries and translations. Moreover, a hitherto undiscovered, independent manuscript, representing a tenuous and particularly valuable branch of the direct tradition, is minutely investigated. The document in question, preserved in the Vatican, is an autograph of the Byzantine humanist and Ecumenical Patriarch Gennadios II Scholarios.Table of ContentsPreforatory note Acknowledgements PROLEGOMENA I. A New, Independent Manuscript of Metaph. Λ II. The Affiliations of the Hitherto Known Codices III. Sources of the Indirect Tradition and Editorial Approaches TEXT CRITICAL NOTES APPENDIX An Amply Annotated Humanistic Translation of Metaphysics Lambda Unduly Fallen Into Oblivion An Inaccurately Catalogued Greek Manuscript from the Renaissance Period Bibliography Abstract Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume, the twenty-ninth year of published proceedings, contains six papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2012-13. The paper topics include: Glaucon's fate in the Republic, divine creation and human responsibility in the Timaeus, Aristotle on orexis in generation, on the biological use of analogy and finally on dialectic as proto-phenomenological, and lastly, Proclus on likeness and unlikeness as ontological first principles.

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Book SynopsisPlato’s Phaedo has never failed to attract the attention of philosophers and scholars. Yet the history of its reception in Antiquity has been little studied. The present volume therefore proposes to examine not only the Platonic exegetical tradition surrounding this dialogue, which culminates in the commentaries of Damascius and Olympiodorus, but also its place in the reflections of the rival Peripatetic, Stoic, and Sceptical schools. This volume thus aims to shed light on the surviving commentaries and their sources, as well as on less familiar aspects of the history of the Phaedo’s ancient reception. By doing so, it may help to clarify what ancient interpreters of Plato can and cannot offer their contemporary counterparts.Trade Review"Just as it is impossible to do justice to every aspect of Phaedo’s influence in antiquity, it is also impossible to do justice to the rich array of insights on offer in this volume … a must have for any serious student of the dialogue." — Donka D. Markus, University of Michigan, in: The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 11 (2017) "The ground covered is immense … the variety of approaches of the contributing authors, some writing in close focus others with a broader palette, has succeeded in producing important general conclusions that are always based on sound and detailed evidence. The volume’s usefulness is also enhanced by an extensive bibliography and three comprehensive indices: locorum, rerum and nominum." — Andrew Smith, University College Dublin, in: Journal of Hellenic Studies 137 (2017)Table of ContentsContents List of Contributors Introduction Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d’Hoine and Marc-Antoine Gavray Aristote et le Phédon Sylvain Delcomminette Strato of Lampsacus as a Reader of Plato’s Phaedo: His Critique of the Soul’s Immortality Han Baltussen Le Phédon dans le Stoïcisme hellénistique et post-hellénistique Francesca Alesse Sextus, the Number Two and the Phaedo Lorenzo Corti Plutarch’s Reception of Plato’s Phaedo Geert Roskam The Phaedo in Numenian Allegorical Interpretation Harold Tarrant Plotin lecteur du Phédon: l’âme et la vie en iv 7 [2] 11 Riccardo Chiaradonna Syrianus and the Phaedo Pieter d’Hoine Damascius, Olympiodore et Proclus sur les attributs «divin» (θεῖον) et «intelligible» (νοητόν) en Phédon 80a10–b1 dans l’argument dit «de la similitude» Alain Lernould From ‘Immortal’ to ‘Imperishable’: Damascius on the Final Argument in Plato’s Phaedo Sebastian Gertz La théorie de l’âme-harmonie chez les commentateurs anciens Franco Trabattoni «Nombreux sont les porteurs de thyrse, mais rares les Bacchants». Olympiodore et Damascius sur le Phédon Bram Demulder et Gerd Van Riel Au terme d’une tradition: Simplicius, lecteur du Phédon Marc-Antoine Gavray Bibliography Index locorum Index nominum Index rerum

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Book SynopsisSocrates and the Socratic Dialogue assembles the most complete range of studies on Socrates and the Socratic dialogue. It focuses on portrayals of Socrates, whether as historical figure or protagonist of ‘Socratic dialogues’, in extant and fragmentary texts from Classical Athens through Late Antiquity. Special attention is paid to the evolving power and texture of the Socratic icon as it adopted old and new uses in philosophy, biography, oratory, and literature. Chapters in this volume focus on Old Comedy, Sophistry, the first-generation Socratics including Plato and Xenophon, Aristotle and Aristoxenus, Epicurus and Stoicism, Cicero and Persius, Plutarch, Apuleius and Maximus, Diogenes Laertius, Libanius, Themistius, Julian, and Proclus.Trade Review''Alessandro Stavru and Christopher Moore have produced a substantial contribution to the literature on Socrates and Socratic literature. Their edited collection includes around forty chapters on a wide range of Socratic topics. Following an overview chapter by the editors, the volume is divided into five parts: the contemporary Athenian representation of Socrates and the Socratic dialogue, the Socratic circle, Plato, Xenophon, and the later ancient reception of Socrates. This is a rich and stimulating resource which will have something to offer anyone with an interest in Socrates.'' Jenny Bryan, in Greece & Rome 67.1: 113-118 (april 2022)Table of ContentsAbbreviations Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue: An Overview from the First-Generation Socratics to Neoplatonism  Christopher Moore and Alessandro Stavru Around Socrates A Sage on the Stage: Socrates and Athenian Old Comedy  Jacques A. Bromberg Aristophanes’ Iconic Socrates  Andrea Capra Protagorean Socrates, Socratic Protagoras: A Narrative Strategy from Aristophanes to Plato  Michele Corradi Isocrates as a Reader of Socratic Dialogues  David J. Murphy The Origins of the Socratic Dialogue: Plato, Xenophon, and the Others  James M. Redfield The Immediate Socratic Circle On the Dialectical Character of Antisthenes’ Speeches Ajax and Odysseus in the Context of Socratic Literature  Vladislav Suvák Socratism and Eleaticism in Euclides of Megara  Aldo Brancacci Aristippus on Freedom, Autonomy, and the Pleasurable Life  Kristian Urstad Shock, Erotics, Plagiarism, and Fraud: Aspects of Aeschines of Sphettus’ Philosophy  Claudia Mársico Phaedo of Elis: The Biography, Zopyrus, and His Intellectual Profile  Danilo Di Lanzo Plato Plato and the Socratics  Luc Brisson Philosopher Socrates? Philosophy at the Time of Socrates and the Reformed Philosophia of Plato  Livio Rossetti A Literary Challenge: How to Represent Socrates’ Daimonion  Stefano Jedrkiewicz The Logical Structure of Socrates’ Expert-Analogies  Petter Sandstad Crying for Help: Socrates as Silenus in the Euthydemus  Michael Erler Socrates and Natural Philosophy: The Testimony of Plato’s Phaedo  Jörn Müller Bios Praktikos and Bios Theôrêtikos in Plato’s Gorgias  Ivan Jordović The Socratic Dubia  Harold Tarrant Notes on Lovers  Sandra Peterson Xenophon How to Defend the Defense of Socrates? From the Apology to Memorabilia Book 1  Pierre Pontier Nature, Culture and the Rule of the Good in Xenophon’s Socratic Theory of Friendship: Memorabilia Book 2  Gabriel Danzig From Generals to Gluttony: Memorabilia Book 3  David Johnson Xenophon’s Socratic Education in Memorabilia Book 4  Christopher Moore Fundamental Parallels between Socrates’ and Ischomachus’ Positions in the Oeconomicus  Louis-André Dorion Aphrodite and Philophrosyne: Xenophon’s Symposium between Athenian and Spartan Paradigms  Maria Consiglia Alvino Xenophon’s Hiero: Hiding Socrates to Reform Tyranny  Federico Zuolo Xenophon’s Philosophical Approach to Writing: Socratic Elements in the Non-Socratic Works  Noreen Humble Later Reception Aristotle on Socrates  Nicholas Smith Aristoxenus on Socrates  Alessandro Stavru Socratic Protreptic and Epicurus: Healing through Philosophy  Jan Erik Heßler From Competitor to Hero: The Stoics on Socrates  Robert Bees Socrates and Alcibiades as “Satiric Heroes:” The Socrates of Persius  Diego De Brasi Plutarch’s Reception of Socrates  Geert Roskam “A Man of Outstanding Perfection”: Apuleius’ Admiration for Socrates  Friedemann Drews Socrates in Maximus of Tyre  M.B. Trapp Socrates in the Ancient Biographical Tradition: From the Anonymous Phib. 182 to Diogenes Laertius  Tiziano Dorandi An Embodiment of Intellectual Freedom? Socrates in Libanius  Heinz-Günther Nesselrath Political Philosopher or Saviour of Souls? Socrates in Themistius and Julian the Emperor  Maria Carmen De Vita Proclus on Socratic Ignorance, Knowledge, and Irony  Danielle A. Layne Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume pays homage to the historian of logic Angel d’Ors (1951-2012), by bringing together a set of studies that together illuminate the complex historical development of logic and semantics. Two main traditions, Aristotelian and terminist, are showcased to demonstrate the changes and confrontations that constitute this history, and a number of different authors and texts, from the Boethian reception of Aristotle to the post-medieval terminism, are discussed. Special topics dealt with include the medieval reception of ancient logic; technical tools for the medieval analysis of language; the medieval theory of consequence; the medieval practice of disputation and sophisms; and the post-medieval refinement of the terminist tools. Contributors are E.J. Ashworth, Allan Bäck, María Cerezo, Sten Ebbesen, José Miguel Gambra, C.H. Kneepkens, Kalvin Normore, Angel d’Ors, Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe, Stephen Read, Joke Spruyt, Luisa Valente, and Mikko Yrjönsuuri. These articles were also published in Vivarium, Volume 53, Nos. 2-4 (2015).

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Book SynopsisRhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts and Interpretation offers new and penetrating insights into the rhetorical nature of a selection of works from the fourth and fifth centuries, with the intent of providing innovative interpretations that firmly situate these texts within their historical and religious coordinates.Trade Review"Insgesamt bietet der Band sorgfältige Analysen ausgewählter Fallbeispiele zum Thema ‚Rhetorik‘ und ‚Rhetorisierung‘ in der spätantiken griechischen und lateinischen Literatur. Die gesteckten Ziele, nämlich die klassische παιδεία im Spannungsfeld zwischen heidnischer und christlicher Kultur zu zeigen und kreative Auseinandersetzungen spätantiker Autoren mit literarischen und visuellen Traditionen beispielhaft herauszuarbeiten, werden erreicht. Eine Lektüre des Buches kann daher vorbehaltlos empfohlen werden." - Nicole Kröll, in: Plekos 21 (2019) "Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature is a very inspiring high-quality collection of articles. All the contributions show, in a wonderful way, how vital, intelligent, amusing, and moving literature and rhetorical practices were in Late Antiquity." - Maijastina Kahlos, in: Zeitschrift Für Antikes Christentum, ZAC 23/3 (2019)

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Book SynopsisReading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of Proclus’ legacy in the Hellenic, Byzantine, Islamic, Latin and Hebrew traditions. The history of the Book of Causes, an Islamic adaptation of mainly Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Plotinus' Enneads, is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts. This first volume enriches our understanding of the diverse reception of Proclus’ Elements of Theology and of the Book of Causes in the Western tradition where universities and religious schools offered unparalleled conditions of diffusion. The volume sheds light on overlooked authors, texts, literary genres and libraries from all major European universities from the 12th to the 16th centuries.Trade Review"One of the landslides in the historiography of ancient and medieval philosophy is the recognition of the import and role of the medieval reception and reworking of Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The volume here reviewed, the first of a triad of essay collections on this topic, will no doubt contribute greatly to that recognition. [...] This is a book for specialists, and a scholarly Fundgrube, as shown by the fact that Latin and occasionally Greek quotations are not translated, the high density of information, and the appendices [...]. The book contains a number of invaluable resources [...] I cannot but conclude that this is an important volume [...] and further avenues of research clearly open up in the wake of this volume." – Marije Martijn, in: The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 06 October 2021. "It must be clear by now that the collection under review constitutes a significant contribution to the exploration of how Proclus’ Elem. theol. and the Book of Causes were received in the Latin West and in Byzantium. This volume of contributions by an interdisciplinary group of experts covers centuries of Proclean influence and familiarizes the reader with a vast array of complex philological and philosophical issues, ranging from details about manuscripts to the most complicated doctrinal controversies." – Sokratis Athanasios Kiosoglou, in: Aestimatio ns 2.2, 31 July 2022.Table of Contents1 Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes: Notes on the Western Scholarly Networks and Debates  Dragos Calma Part 1 Liber de causis 2 Tradition exégétique: âges, styles et formes d’ une réception par le commentaire  Dominique Poirel 3 La première réception du Liber de causis en Occident (XIIe–XIIIe siècles)  Irene Caiazzo 4 Liber de causis in Thomas of York  Fiorella Retucci 5 Le Liber de causis et l’ Elementatio theologica dans deux bibliothèques anglaises: Merton College (Oxford) et Peterhouse (Cambridge)  Laure Miolo 6 Les gloses sur le Liber de causis dans les manuscrits parisiens  Olga Weijers 7 From Content to Method: the Liber de causis in Albert the Great  Henryk Anzulewicz and Katja Krause 8 Citing the Book of Causes, IV: Henry of Ghent and the His (?) Questions on the Metaphysics  Maria Evelina Malgieri 9 Duns Scot et le Liber de causis  Jean-Michel Counet 10 Sine secundaria: Thomas d’ Aquin, Siger de Brabant et les débats sur l’ occasionalisme  Dragos Calma 11 The Liber de causis in Some Central European Quodlibets  Iulia Székely Part 2 Proclus 12 Proclus, Eustrate de Nicée et leur réception aux XIIIe–XIVe siècles  Irene Zavattero 13 Bate et sa lecture ‘encyclopédiste’ de Proclus  Guy Guldentops 14 Au-delà de la métaphysique: Notule sur l’ importance du commentaire de Berthold de Moosburg OP sur les Eléments de théologie  Ruedi Imbach 15 Eriugenism in Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli  Evan King 16 Proclus dans la première quaestio collativa de Gilles Charlier  Zénon Kaluza 17 Plato’s Parmenides as Serious Game: Contarini and the Renaissance Reception of Proclus  Barbara Bartocci Index

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Book SynopsisReading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of the history of Neoplatonism from the 9th to the 16th century. The impact of the Elements of Theology and the Book of Causes is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts and evidences. This second volume revises widely accepted hypotheses about the reception of the Proclus’ text in Byzantium and the Caucasus, and about the context that made possible the composition of the Book of Causes and its translations into Latin and Hebrew. The contributions offer a unique, comparative perspective on the various ways a pagan author was acculturated to the Abrahamic traditions.Table of Contents1 Notes on the Translations and Acculturations  Dragos Calma Part 1 Byzantium 2 An Orthodox and Byzantine Reception of the Elements of Theology  Frederick Lauritzen 3 Universals, Wholes, Logoi: Eustratios of Nicaea’s Response to Proclus’ Elements of Theology  Stephen Gersh 4 ‘A Mixing Cup of Piety and Learnedness’: Michael Psellos and Nicholas of Methone as Readers of Proclus’ Elements of Theology  Joshua M. Robinson 5 Nicholas of Methone, Procopius of Gaza and Proclus of Lycia  Anna Gioffreda and Michele Trizio Part 2 The Caucasus 6 Die Elementatio theologica des Proklos im Kontext der kaukasischen Philosophie  Tengiz Iremadze Part 3 The Lands of Islam 7 Providence, Divine Knowledge and Causation and Porphyry and the Theology of Aristotle  Michael Chase 8 Plotinus Arabus and Proclus Arabus in the Harmony of the Two Philosophers Ascribed to al-Fārābī  Peter Adamson 9 Les Chapitres sur les thèmes métaphysiques d’ al-ʿĀmirī et l’ anonyme Kitāb al-ḥaraka : deux interprétations du Liber de causis en arabe  Elvira Wakelnig 10 Contextualizing the Doctrine of Divine Causality in the Kalâm fi mahd al-khair / Liber de causis  Richard Taylor 11 La présence de Proclus et du Liber de causis dans l’ œuvre d’ Ibn Bāǧǧa et pseudo-Ibn Bāǧǧa  Jamal Rachak Part 4 The Latin West 12 The Latin Translation of the Liber de causis  Dag Nikolaus Hasse 13 Doubles traductions et omissions : une approche critique en vue d’ une édition de la traduction latine du Liber de causis  Jules Janssens 14 Thomas d’ Aquin et les mots arabes du Liber de causis  Pascale Bermon 15 Le Liber de causis et Proclus dans les sermons de Meister Eckhart  Alessandra Beccarisi 16 The Liber de causis and the Formula potentia sive virtus intellectiva in Dante’s Political Philosophy  Victoria Arroche 17 Notes on the Presence of the Elements of Theology in Ficino’s Commentary on Philebus  Sokrates-Athanasios Kiosoglou Part 5 The Hebraic Tradition 18 Hillel de Vérone, traducteur en hébreu et commentateur du Liber de causis au XIIIe siècle  Jean-Pierre Rothschild 19 Receptum est in recipiente per modum recipientis: Traces of the Liber de causis in Early Kabbalah  Saverio Campanini Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the nature of religious change in the Greek-speaking cities of the Roman Empire. Emphasis is put on those developments that apparently were not the direct result of Roman actions: the intensification of idiosyncratically Greek features in the religious life of the cities (Heller, Muñiz, Camia); the active role of a new kind of Hellenism in the design of imperial religious policies (Gordillo, Galimberti, Rosillo-López); or the locally different responses to central religious initiatives, and the influence of those local responses in other imperial contexts (Cortés, Melfi, Lozano, Rizakis). All the chapters try to suggest that religion in the Greek cities of the empire was both conservative and innovative, and that the ‘Roman factor’ helps to explain this apparent paradox.Trade Review''Aesthetically, the book is pleasing. Color pictures are included in the final chapter. The book successfully reaches its goal in spurring discussion and debate regarding religion in the Greek territories under Roman rule. Each of the authors’ contributions could develop into a worthy book. (...) this book is a worthwhile read and contributes to a glaring hole in the historiography of religion in the Greek provinces under Roman rule.'' Kristan Foust, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2018.02.59 "[T]his strong set of papers illustrates nicely how “the religion of the Greek cities of the Roman Empire was both conservative and innovative at the same time, and that many (but not all) changes need the ‘Roman factor’ to be properly accounted for” (...) All students of the Roman East will benefit from taking heed of this volume." Ted Kaizer, Arys 16 (2018).

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Book SynopsisPlato and Xenophon are the two students of Socrates whose works have come down to us in their entirety. Their works have been studied by countless scholars over the generations; but rarely have they been brought into direct contact, outside of their use in relation to the Socratic problem. This volume changes that, by offering a collection of articles containing comparative analyses of almost the entire range of Plato's and Xenophon's writings, approaching them from literary, philosophical and historical perspectives.Trade Review"This volume is a landmark of how far the new wave in Socratic studies has traveled. At the same time, it presents an opportunity to assess how much of the remaining so-called Socratic problem resists dissolution. This will be a collection of interest to all scholars working in Socratic studies and a necessary addition to any research library." - Vincent Renzi, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2019.06.32 "[T]hese essays offer much to the students of Xenophon, Plato and other Socratics. (...) Morrison provides a helpful index of places. The result well justifies the price." - David J. Murphy, in: CJ-Online, 2019.11.03 "[T]his volume, Plato and Xenophon, has the great merit of opening a number of paths to the investigation of the subject and overcoming a number of inadvisable simplifications, all that while an impressive 'Xenophon Renaissance' is flourishing." - Livio Rossetti, in: Scripta Classica Israelica 40, 2021Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction to the Comparative Study of Plato and Xenophon  Gabriel Danzig Introduction to This Volume  David Johnson Part 1 Methods Comparative Exegesis and the Socratic Problem  Louis-André Dorion Xenophon’s Intertextual Socrates  David Johnson Division and Collection: A New Paradigm for the Relationship between Plato and Xenophon  William H.F. Altman Xenophon and the Socratics  James Redfield Xenophon on “Philosophy” and Socrates  Christopher Moore Xenophon and the Elenchos: A Formal and Comparative Analysis  Genevieve Lachance Part 2 Ethics Laughter in Plato’s and Xenophon’s Symposia  Katarzyna Jazdzewska Socrates’ Physiognomy: Plato and Xenophon in Comparison  Alessandro Stavru Xenophon’s Triad of Socratic Virtues and the Poverty of Socrates  Lowell Edmunds Pity or Pardon: Responding to Intentional Wrongdoing in Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle  Roslyn Weiss Mechanisms of Pleasure according to Xenophon’s Socrates  Olga Chernyakhovskaya Plato, Aristotle and Xenophon on the Ends of Virtue  Gabriel Danzig Socrates Erotikos: Mutuality, Role Reversal and Erotic Paideia in Xenophon’s and Plato’s Symposia  Francesca Pentassuglio Socratic Economics and the Psychology of Money  T.A. van Berkel Part 3 From Friendship to Politics Xenophon’s Conception of Friendship in Memorabilia 2.6 (with Reference to Plato’s Lysis)  Melina Tamiolaki Socrates’ Attitude towards Politics in Xenophon and Plato  Fiorenza Bevilacqua Plato and Xenophon on the Different Reasons that Socrates Always Obeys the Law  Louis-André Dorion Plato’s Statesman and Xenophon’s Cyrus  Carol Atack Part 4 History Sparta in Xenophon and Plato  Noreen Humble Plato, Xenophon and Persia  C.J. Tuplin The Enemies of Hunting in Xenophon’s Cynegeticus  David Thomas Index

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Book SynopsisA wide range of specialists provide a comprehensive overview of the reception of Pythagorean ideas in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, shedding new light especially on the understudied ‘Medieval Pythagoras’ of the Latin West. They also explore the survival of Pythagoreanism in the Arabic, Jewish, and Persian cultures, thus adopting a multicultural perspective. Their common concern is to detect the sources of this reception, and to follow their circulation in diverse linguistic areas. The reader can thus have a panoramic view of the major themes belonging to the Pythagorean heritage – number philosophy and the sciences of the quadrivium; ethics and way of life; theology, metaphysics and the soul – until the Early Modern times.Trade Review"This is a very erudite, coherent, and carefully edited volume. I noticed no typographical mistakes. Moreover, what I found particularly successful was the organization of the content in thematic divisions corresponding to the focal aspects of Pythagorean philosophy. These divisions enabled the contributions focusing on different traditions (Christian Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic) to supplement each other, and thus to demonstrate as fully as possible the historical and philosophical interactions between East and West, which were also vital for the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism during the Middle Ages. It is only unfortunate that, given the volume’s title, the Byzantine component has been left out (a decision the editors explain in the introduction, p. 3). That said, the companion under review, with its broad scope and wealth of detail, definitely constitutes a welcome contribution to the field and an indispensable reference source for all students of the transmission of ancient Pythagoreanism (and to some extent also of Platonism), as well as of Presocratic philosophy." Theofanis Tsiampokalos in BMCR 2022.09.14Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Pythagoras, from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity  A Multicultural Approach  Irene Caiazzo, Constantinos Macris and Aurélien Robert part 1: Pythagorean Number Theory and the Quadrivium 1 Pythagoras and the Quadrivium from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages  Cecilia Panti 2 Music and the Pythagorean Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages  Andrew Hicks 3 Nicomachean Number Theory in Arabic and Persian Scholarly Literature  Sonja Brentjes 4 The Tribulations of the Introduction to Arithmetic from Greek to Hebrew Via Syriac and Arabic  Nicomachus of Gerasa, Ḥabib Ibn Bahrīz, al-Kindī, and Qalonymos ben Qalonymos  Gad Freudenthal 5 Medieval Jewish Pythagoreanism  Remarks on Maimonides and on Sefer Melakhim  Tzvi Langermann part 2: Pythagorean Way(s) of Life, East and West 6 Popular Pythagoreanism in the Arabic Tradition  Between Biography and Gnomology  Anna Izdebska 7 Pythagoras’ Ethics and the Pythagorean Way of Life in the Middle Ages  Aurélien Robert Part 3: Theology, Metaphysics and the Soul 8 Pythagoras’ Philosophy of Unity as a Precursor of Islamic Monotheism  Pseudo-Ammonius and Related Sources  Daniel De Smet 9 The “Brethren of Purity” and the Pythagorean Tradition  Carmela Baffioni 10 “Pythagoras’ Mistake”  The Transmigration of Souls in the Latin Middle Ages and Beyond  Irene Caiazzo 11 Pythagoras Latinus  Aquinas’ Interpretation of Pythagoreanism in His Aristotelian Commentaries  Marta Borgo and Iacopo Costa 12 Latin Christian Neopythagorean Theology  A Speculative Summa  David Albertson Part 4: New Trends in Early Modern Pythagoreanism 13 Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Renaissance  Philosophical and Religious Itineraries from Pico to Brucker  Denis J.-J. Robichaud 14 Pythagorean Number Mysticism in the Renaissance  An Overview  Jean-Pierre Brach Index

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Book SynopsisIn Pouvoir impérial et vertus philosophiques, Anne Gangloff offers a thorough analysis of the Roman political thought, examining the way in which the good prince is described from the Julio-Claudians to the end of the third century. Dans Pouvoir impérial et vertus philosophiques, Anne Gangloff propose une analyse précise de la pensée politique romaine, à travers la manière dont la figure du bon prince est décrite depuis les Julio-Claudiens jusqu’à la fin du IIIe siècle.Trade Review‘l’ouvrage d’Anne Gangloff nous apparaît comme une référence centrale pour l’analyse de la figure du bon prince sous le régime impérial.’ Hermann Amon, in Latomus vol.79 (2020)

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Book SynopsisIn Plato's Timaeus and the Missing Fourth Guest, Donna M. Altimari Adler proposes a new Timaeus scale structure. She finds the harmonic cosmos, mathematically, at 35 A-36 D, regarding the text as a number generator. Plato's primary number sequence, she argues, yields a matrix defining a sophisticated harmony of the spheres. She stresses the Decad as the pattern governing both human perception and the generation of all things, in the Timaeus, including the World Soul and musical scale symbolizing it. She precisely identifies Plato's "fabric" and its locus of severance and solves other thorny problems of textual interpretation.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction: Plato’s Missing Fourth Guest 1 The Timaeus, the Decad, and the Harmonia: an Overview 2 Plato’s Construction of the World Soul: the Text as a Number Generator from 35 A to a Conundrum in 36 B  1 Timaeus 35 A  2 End of Timaeus 35 A–Beginning of Timaeus 35 C  3 Timaeus 35 C and 36 A  4 Timaeus 36 A (con’t) and 36 B 3 Solving the 36 B Conundrum: Deriving the Set of Sesquitertian Parts to Be Filled by Sesqui-Octave Intervals  1 Derivation of the Sesquitertian Parts 4 The Sesquioctave Operation within the Sesquitertian Parts  1 Deriving Matrix Numbers Not Generable from the 2:8/3 Interval  2 Special Mathematical Features of the Number Set Reflected in Table 24 5 The Musical Significance of Plato’s Number Matrix: the Primary Timaeus Scale  1 Numerical Arrangement of the Timaeus Numbers with Key  2 The First Cognizable Fourth of Any Kind  3 The First Diatonic and Enharmonic Fourth  4 The “Model” Octave and the Perfect Disdiapason  5 Rise to the Perfect Disdiapason  6 First Octave of the Model Diatonic Octave Chain Containing Chromatic Elements  7 First Instances of Standard GPS, LPS, Diatonic Unmodulating Perfect System, and Unmodulating Perfect System in All Genera  8 First Instance of Properly Timaean GPS, LPS, Diatonic Unmodulating Perfect System, and Unmodulating Perfect System in All Genera  9 Possibilities for Modulation among Different Perfect Systems Arising within the Timaeus Numbers  10 The Primary Timaeus Scale  11 Some Other Modern Interpretations of the Timaeus Numbers and Timaeus Scale  12 The Feature of Ascending/Descending Ambiguity in Plato’s Scale  13 Significance of the Chromatic Invasion for the Primary Timaeus Scale  14 The Orderliness of the Chromatic Invasion within the Primary Scale  15 Orderly Rise and Fall of Fifth Periodicity with the Decay of the Primary Scale  16 Grammar of Chromaticity in the Rise and Fall of Fifth Periodicity  17 Another Look at the Crantor Matrix  18 The Decad in the Rise, Wax, and Wane of the Primary Timaeus Scale 6 The Further Musical Significance of Plato’s Number Matrix: the Many “Secondary” Timaeus Scales and Asociated Musical Phenomena  1 The Many “Secondary” Diatonic Scales Hidden in the Fabric  2 The Many Chromatic Timaeus Scales Hidden in the Fabric  3 The Many Enharmonic Timaeus Scales Hidden in the Fabric 7 The Musical Data of the Timaeus Vis-à-vis the Cutting of the Fabric, the Making of the “Chi,” and the Cosmic Orbits  1 Division of the Material  2 Forming the χ Figure  3 Bending the Arms to Form Circular Shapes  4 The Uniform Motion of the Whole without Variation  5 Separation of the Arms into an Outer and Inner Circle  6 Separation and Definition of the Motions of Same and Different  7 Elevation of the Motion of the Same to Primacy  8 Sixfold Split of the Inner Movement of the Different, i.e., Octave Movement 8 Plato’s Generalization of the Timaean Harmonia in Laws Concluding Remarks Appendices Appendix 1. Verification of the Diesis Remaining after Insertion of Two Sesquioctave Intervals into a Sesquitertian Part for the Sample Sesquitertian Part 2:8/3 Appendix 2. The Archytan Alternative in the Pythagorean School Appendix 3. Greater and Lesser Perfect Systems and Associated Questions Appendix 4. Alternative Perfect Systems Appendix 5. Two Overlapping Sequences of Doubles, Including Coincident Diatonic Octaves within Each, Bounded Entirely by Chromatic Factors of 1719926784 Appendix 6. Two Overlapping Sequences of Doubles, Including Coincident Diatonic Octaves within Each, Bounded Entirely by Chromatic Nonfactors of 1719926784 Appendix 7. Continuously Overlapping and Contiguous Chains of Doubles, Including Coincident Diatonic Octaves within Each, Bounded Entirely by Model Scale Numbers and Their Multiples Appendix 8. Chromatic Scale Tables Appendix 9. Specification of Trihemitones and Chromatic Scales in Which They Manifest Appendix 10. Enharmonic Scale Tables Glossary Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBrill’s Companion to the Reception of Socrates, edited by Christopher Moore, provides almost unbroken coverage, across three-dozen studies, of 2450 years of philosophical and literary engagement with Socrates – the singular Athenian intellectual, paradigm of moral discipline, and inspiration for millennia of philosophical, rhetorical, and dramatic composition. Following an Introduction reflecting on the essentially “receptive” nature of Socrates’ influence (by contrast to Plato’s), chapters address the uptake of Socrates by authors in the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Late Antique (including Latin Christian, Syriac, and Arabic), Medieval (including Byzantine), Renaissance, Early Modern, Late Modern, and Twentieth-Century periods. Together they reveal the continuity of Socrates’ idiosyncratic, polyvalent, and deep imprint on the history of Western thought, and witness the value of further research in the reception of Socrates.Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations ix Contributors x Introduction: Socrates’ Writing as Writings about Socrates 1 Christopher Moore PART 1 Living Reception 1 Greek Tragedy and the Socratic Tradition 41 Jacques A. Bromberg 2 Socrates in Early Fourth-Century Rhetoric: Polycrates, Lysias, Isocrates, and Pseudo-Andocides 75 David J. Murphy 3 Plato’s Reception of Socrates: One Aspect 98 Sandra Peterson 4 Antisthenes’ Portrayal of Socrates 124 Menahem Luz 5 Xenophon’s Socrates and the Socratic Xenophon 150 David Johnson PART 2 Greek Philosophy 6 Socrates in Aristotle’s History of Philosophy 173 Christopher Moore 7 What Is Socratic about the Pseudo-Platonica? 211 Mark Joyal 8 Epicurus and the Epicureans on Socrates and the Socratics 237 F. Javier Campos-Daroca 9 The Syncretic Socrates of Epictetus 266 Brian Earl Johnson 10 Socratic Themes in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 293 John Sellars 11 Plutarch’s Primary Use of the Socratic Paradigm in the Lives 311 Mark Beck 12 Socratic Methods in Damascius 328 Damian Caluori PART 3 Roman Writers 13 Cicero and Socrates 347 Sean McConnell 14 Socrates in Roman Satire 367 Cedric Littlewood 15 The Rhetoric of Socrates in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria 399 Curtis Dozier 16 Socrates in Aulus Gellius 415 Leofranc Holford-Strevens PART 4 Late Antiquity and the Medieval Period 17 The Reception of Socrates in Tertullian 435 Juraj Franek 18 Socrates in Stobaeus: Assembling a Philosopher 453 Susan Prince 19 Syriac Reception of Socrates 518 Ute Pietruschka 20 Socrates in the Arabic Tradition: An Esteemed Monotheist with Moist Blue Eyes 545 Elvira Wakelnig 21 Socrates, “Princeps Stoicorum,” in Albert the Great’s Middle Ages 571 Nadia Bray 22 Socrates in Byzantium 592 Michele Trizio PART 5 Early Modern Europe 23 Manetti’s Socrates and the Socrateses of Antiquity 619 James Hankins 24 Writing Montaigne’s Socrates with Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch 635 Alison Calhoun 25 Socrates and Religious Debate in the Scottish Enlightenment 658 Felicity P. Loughlin PART 6 The Nineteenth Century 26 Socrates in the Early Nineteenth Century, Become Young and Beautiful 685 Hayden W. Ausland 27 Astonished Thought: Friedrich Schlegel’s Appropriation of Socratic Irony 719 Samuel Frederick 28 Hegel on Socrates and the Historical Advent of Moral Self-Consciousness 749 Brady Bowman 29 The Mills 793 Antis Loizides 30 Kierkegaard’s Socratic Way of Writing 820 David Schur and Lori Yamato 31 Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Socrates 837 Christopher C. Raymond PART 7 The Twentieth Century 32 Wittgenstein’s Reception of Socrates 883 Oskari Kuusela 33 Leo Strauss’ Socrates and the Possibility of Philosophy in Our Time 908 Dolores Amat 34 “Sacrifice a Cock to Asclepius”: The Reception of Socrates in Foucault’s Final Writings 928 Leonard Lawlor 35 Socratic Voices in Derrida’s Writing 950 Karel Thein 36 Socrates, Vlastos, and Analytic Philosophy 975 David Conan Wolfsdorf Index of Persons 997

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Book SynopsisThis book shows how and why debates in the philosophy of film can be advanced through the study of the role of images in Plato’s dialogues, and, conversely, why Plato studies stands to benefit from a consideration of recent debates in the philosophy of film. Contributions range from a reading of Phaedo as a ghost story to thinking about climate change documentaries through Plato’s account of pleonexia. They suggest how philosophical aesthetics can be reoriented by attending anew to Plato’s deployment of images, particularly images that move. They also show how Plato’s deployment of images is integral to his practice as a literary artist. Contributors are Shai Biderman, David Calhoun, Michael Forest, Jorge Tomas Garcia, Abraham Jacob Greenstine, Paul A. Kottman, Danielle A. Layne, David McNeill, Erik W. Schmidt, Timothy Secret, Adrian Switzer, and Michael Weinman.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Shai Biderman and Michael Weinman Part 1: From Plato to the Moving Image: Reorienting Film-Philosophy 1 Accounting for Images in the Sophist  Abraham Jacob Greenstine 2 Pseudos, Kalos and Eikōs Mythos in Plato and Film  Danielle A. Layne and Erik W. Schmidt 3 Dead Ringers: Plato and Turning the Camera Back  Timothy Secret 4 The Cinematic Image as Platonic Simulacrum  Jorge Tomas Garcia 5 The Myth of Er as Rationalizing Recording Device  Michael Weinman Part 2: From the Moving Image to Plato: Reorienting Plato Studies 6 Learning to Notice: Light and Shadow, from Chauvet Cave to Plato’s Cave and Beyond  Paul A. Kottman 7 Phaedo: a Ghost Story  David McNeill 8 Fascism Re-performed: Benjaminian Mimesis, Platonic Methexis and Bertolucci’s The Conformist  Adrian Switzer 9 Entranced by the Spectacle of Truth: Wonder and Ascent in Plato and Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups and To the Wonder  David H. Calhoun 10 Plato, Pleonexia and Environmental Documentaries  Michael Forest 11 Truth, Reality and Fiction in the Documentary of Errol Morris: Refiguring ‘Platonism’ in Epistemology and Aesthetics  Shai Biderman Index

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Book SynopsisThemistius’ (4th century CE) paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12 is the earliest surviving complete account of this seminal work. Despite leaving no identifiable mark in Late Antiquity, Themistius’ paraphrase played a dramatic role in shaping the metaphysical landscape of Medieval Arabic and Hebrew philosophy and theology. Lost in Greek, and only partially surviving in Arabic, its earliest full version is in the form of a 13th century Hebrew translation. In this volume, Yoav Meyrav offers a new critical edition of the Hebrew translation and the Arabic fragments of Themistius’ paraphrase, accompanied by detailed philological and philosophical analyses. In doing so, he provides a solid foundation for the study of one of the most important texts in the history of Aristotelian metaphysics.Trade Review"Yoav Meyrav’s publication is a stunningly impressive work of scholarship. He has produced a meticulous edition of the text, scrutinizing the available Hebrew and Arabic sources, and sorting them out according to their distance from the original—translation, revised translation, abridgment. However, there is much more here than philology—Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek—as well as a significant contribution to translation studies. Meyrav takes responsibility for advancing the appreciation of the philosophical content of the paraphrase. Moreover, given that the Greek original is lost, he senses and meets an obligation to classicists to squeeze what he can from the text that is relevant to their discipline, notably regarding the genre of the paraphrase." - Tzvi Langermann, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2020 “Yoav Meyrav’s publication is a stunningly impressive work of scholarship. He has produced a meticulous edition of the text, scrutinizing the available Hebrew and Arabic sources, and sorting them out according to their distance from the original—translation, revised translation, abridgment.[…] Meyrav has set an academic standard.” Y. Tzvi Langermann in Bryn Mawr Classical Review https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2020/2020.06.19/[09/08/2021, 15:39:18]Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Introduction  1 Overview  2 Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12 before Themistius  3 Themistius on Metaphysics 12: Context and Scholarship  4 Themistius’ Paraphrase of Metaphysics 12 in the Arabic and Hebrew Traditions  5 Looking Forward 1 The Textual Tradition  1 Overview  2 The Arabic Textual Tradition  3 The Hebrew Textual Tradition  4 Moshe Finzi’s Latin Translation  5 Principles of the Present Edition 2 Historical and Methodological Aspects of Themistius as Paraphrast of Metaphysics 12  1 Overview  2 The Aims and Methodologies of Themistius’ Paraphrases  3 Examples  4 Conclusion Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12: Parallel Hebrew/Arabic Edition Abbreviations  1 Hebrew Sources  2 Arabic Sources  3 Misc. Text and Translation Commentary Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Conclusion Appendix A: Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn’s Arabic Translation of Metaphysics 2 and Its Abridgment in MS Ḥikma 6: Text and Notes Appendix B: Two Versions of the Hebrew Translation of the Themistius Quotations in Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics—A Preliminary Edition Appendix C: Matter and Element—Case Study Hebrew–Arabic Lexicon Arabic–Hebrew Lexicon Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEmotions (pathè) such as anger, fear, shame, and envy, but also pity, wonder, love and friendship have long been underestimated in Plato’s philosophy. The aim of Emotions in Plato is to provide a consistent account of the role of emotions in Plato’s psychology, epistemology, ethics and political theory. The volume focuses on three main issues: taxonomy of emotions, their epistemic status, and their relevance for the ethical and political theory and practice. This volume, which is the first edited volume entirely dedicated to emotions in Plato’s philosophy, shows how Plato, in many aspects, was positively interested in these affective states in order to support the rule of reason. "Emotions in Plato is a rich and illuminating book, which will probably make not a few readers change their view of Plato’s attitude to emotions." -Margalit Finkelberg, Tel Aviv University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.10.16Trade Review"Summing Up: Essential." - P. W. Wakefield, Emory University, in: Choice Connect, vol. 58 (8/2021).Table of Contents Introduction: Why Plato Comes First   Laura Candiotto and Olivier Renaut Part 1: For a Taxonomy of Plato’s Emotions 1 Epistemic Wonder and the Beginning of the Enquiry: Plato’s Theaetetus (155d2-4) and Its Wider Significance  Laura Candiotto and Vasilis Politis 2 The Feel of the Real: Perceptual Encounters in Plato’s Critique of Poetry  Pia Campeggiani 3 Why Do Itches Itch? Bodily Pain in the Socratic Theory of Motivation  Freya Möbus 4 Emotions in Context: “Risk” as Condition for Emotion  Stefano Maso Part 2: Plato’s Emotions between Rationality and Irrationality 5 Emotions and Rationality in theTimaeus(Ti. 42a–b, 69c–72e)  Olivier Renaut 6 On the Desire for Drink in Plato and the Platonist Tradition  Lidia Palumbo and Anna Motta 7 Plato’s Seasick Steersman: On (Not) Being Overwhelmed by Fear in Plato’s Laws  Myrthe L. Bartels 8 The Dialogue between the Emotions in the Platonic Corpus  Karine Tordo-Rombaut 9 Love, Speech and Charm in Plato's Charmides: Reading the Dialogue through Emotions  Carla Francalanci Part 3: The Ethical and Political Value of Plato’s Emotions 10 The Notion of Φθόνος in Plato  Luc Brisson 11 On Mild Envy and Self-deceit (Phlb. 47d–50e)  Beatriz Bossi 12 Αἰσχύνη and the Λογιστικόν in Plato’s Republic  Chiara Militello 13 Shame and Virtue in Plato’s Laws: Two Kinds of Fear and the Drunken Puppet  Julia Pfefferkorn 14 Loving and Living Well: the Importance of Shame in Plato’s Phaedrus  Simon Scott 15 Plato on the Role of Anger in Our Intellectual and Moral Development  Marta Jimenez 16 Platonic Pity, or Why Compassion Is Not a Platonic Virtue  Rachana Kamtekar 17 Love and the City: Eros and Philia in Plato’s Laws  Frisbee C.C. Sheffield  Afterword: The Invention of Emotion?   David Konstan  Index of Modern Authors  Index of Relevant Passages  Index of Subjects

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