Svetla Slaveva‐Griffin

Biographic Data

ID5803043
NAMESvetla Slaveva‐Griffin
GIVEN NAMESSvetla
FAMILY NAMESlaveva‐Griffin
SIGNATUREGRIFFIN S S
AFFILIATIONSFlorida State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX0

  • Exhortations to Philosophy

    Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla Slaveva‐GriffinARTICLEThe Classical World2016

    Reviewed by: Exhortations to Philosophy: The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle by James Henderson Collins II Svetla Slaveva-Griffin James Henderson Collins II. Exhortations to Philosophy: The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 300. $74.00. ISBN 978–0-19–935859–5. This book examines the origin of the genre of philosophical and rhetorical protreptics (“turnings toward”) in …

  • Socrates’ Debt to Asclepius

    Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla Slaveva‐GriffinARTICLENumen2016References: 19

    This article examines the development of the aspect of health in late Neoplatonic ontology as originated in Proclus and illustrated in Marinus’ Life of Proclus and Damascius’ Life of Isidore . In light of the steadily growing Neoplatonic interest in the philosophic value of the body and the widely spreading presence of the new and only Savior, Proclus looks closer at the Demiurge’s cosmological activity in the universe to discern its health-insti…

  • Plotinus on Number

    Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla Slaveva‐GriffinBOOKPlotinus on number2009

    Introduction: One by Number 1. Platonic Cosmology on Plotinian Terms Ennead VI.6 and Timaeus Origin of Multiplicity in Plotinus Plotinus' apostasies and Numenius' stasis Universe as Degrees of Separation from One 2. Multiplicity as Number Surfacing from the Neopythagorean Underground Outward and Inward Direction of Multiplicity in VI.6 Multiplicity as Effluence and Unity 3. The Number of Infinity Plato's Position Aristotle's Criticism of Plato an…

  • Plotinus on number

    Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla Slaveva‐GriffinBOOKPlotinus on number2009

  • Unity of Thought and Writing

    Open AccessSvetla Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla Slaveva‐GriffinARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2008

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  • Philosophy and Myth

    Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla Slaveva‐GriffinARTICLEThe European Legacy2007

    The title of this special issue, “Philosophy and the Longing for Myth,” presents one of the growing topics in classical scholarship—the relationship between philosophy and myth—in a new light. It r

  • Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life (review)

    Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla Slaveva‐GriffinARTICLEThe Classical World2007

    Reviewed by: Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life Svetla Slaveva-Griffin Daniel Russell . Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp.ix, 272. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-928284-6. This book is important for two reasons. First, it offers a comprehensive analysis of the concept of pleasure and its relation to "the good life" (according to the philosophers) and happiness in the Euthydemus, Gorgias, Phaedo, Republic, Philebus…

  • Of Gods, Philosophers, and Charioteers

    Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla Slaveva‐GriffinARTICLETransactions of the American…2003

    This article examines the ways in which Parmenides and Plato avail themselves of the literary motif of the charioteer's journey for philosophical discourse. I argue that the Phaedrus' myth of the soul as a charioteer exemplifies Plato's literary and philosophic appropriation of the charioteer allegory in Parmenides' proem and of Parmenides' concept of being, showing how the literary study of intertexts can be applied to questions of both content …