| Physical description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Brill's companions to classical reception, 2213-1426 ; volume 13
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Brill's companions to classical reception ; v. 13.
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| Contents |
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. |
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The Influence of the Platonic Dialogues on Stoic Ethics from Zeno to Panaetius of RhodesPlato 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. |
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From Fringe Reading to Core Curriculum: Commentary, Introduction, and Doctrinal SummaryI 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. |
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I Nicomachus: "Platonically Orientated" MathematicsII 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. |
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Numenius: Portrait of a PlatonicusI 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. |
| Other author |
Tarrant, Harold, editor.
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Layne, Danielle A., editor.
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Baltzly, Dirk, editor.
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Renaud, François, editor.
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| Subject |
Plato -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN |
9789004355385 (electronic bk.) |
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9004355383 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004270695 |
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9004270698 |
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