Timotin, Andrei

this book provides a marvellous retrieval of Greek philosophical reflection on the nature of prayer in the wider context of Greek culture and its evolving understanding of the relation of the human and the divine. it thus joins a remarkable project overcoming the scholarly assumptions of the last two centuries. This project is international and multilingual, as Andrei timotin (At) makes clear in his notes and bibliography here and his collaboration with John dillon in Platonic Theories of Prayer (2016). The bibliography, spanning 20 pages, has references in english, French, German, and italian. Where the religious dimension of ancient thought had been relegated to the fringes, it has now become a central topic. Where the prayers in Platonic dialogues had been passed over in silence, they are now examined with all the resources of modern scholarly method. At's approach is both chronological, from Plato to Proclus, and thematic, examining philosophy, religion, and rhetoric

Humanities · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy