John Dillon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3698702 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Dillon |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Dillon |
| ASSINATURA | DILLON J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2873-1249 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Platonism and the Natural World
Does the philosopher Plato, despite his elevation to a supreme position in the intelligible world of the Beautiful itself, or the Idea of Beauty, really exhibit any appreciation of the beauties of nature, or Natural Beauty? The omission of any mention of the beauties of Nature in Diotima’s ladder of ascent to the Beautiful Itself in the Symposium leads me to propose that Plato, in line with the sensibility of Greeks of the Classical period in gen…
Evaluating the effect of direct-acting antiviral agent treatment scale-up on Hepatitis C virus prevalence among people who inject drugs in UK
Real-world evidence showing substantial reductions in chronic HCV associated with increase of HCV treatment scale-up in the community thus supporting the effectiveness of HCV treatment as prevention in people who inject drugs
Tourism and Culture in Philosophical Perspective
This book offers a philosophical approach to tourism as a permanent factor in the lifestyle, economy, and culture of the contemporary global community.
Two Treatises of Philo of Alexandria
Über das Glück
Die Schrift Über das Glück: Das Leben des Proklos , verfasst von dem neuplatonischen Philosophen Marinos, ist ein bemerkenswerter Text des späten 5. Jh. n. Chr., der traditionelle biographische, hagiographische und philosophische Themen und Motive mit aktuellen zeitgenössischen Diskursen der Spätantike amalgamiert. Das langjährige Oberhaupt der Neuplatoniker in Athen, der Philosoph Proklos, wird als Leitfigur und paganer Heiliger in einer zunehme…
The Platonic Heritage
This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition. Once again, the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the Old Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism, to the Neoplatonists and beyond. Particular concerns evidenced in the papers are the continuities in the Platonic tradition, and the setting of philosophers in their social and cultural contexts, while…
The Timaeus in the Old Academy
The Riddle of the Timaeus
Platonic Heritage
Signs and Tokens
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Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition
'Dionysius the Areopagite' is arguably one of the most mysterious and intriguing figures to emerge from the late antique world. Writing probably around 500 CE, and possibly connected with the circle of Severus of Antioch, Dionysius manipulates a Platonic metaphysics to describe a hierarchical universe: as with the Hellenic Platonists, he arranges the celestial and material cosmos into a series of triadic strata. These strata emanate from one unif…
Agonistes
Contents: Apologia pro vita sua, Denis O'Brien Bibliographie Preface, John Dillon Introduction, Monique Dixsaut. From the Presocratics to Plato: Les dieux d'A0/00lee et d'Agrigente, Jean Frere Les tropoi de Damon, Aldo Bancacci. From Plato to the Stoics: Un monde abandonne A lui-mAme, Luc Brisson Sollevare in alto gli occhi dell'anima: qualche riflessione su un'immagine platonica, Giovanni Casertano Refutation et dialectique, Monique Dixsaut La f…
Agonistes
Humanism vs. competency
The roots of Western philosophy lie with the Greeks. Nevertheless, education and philosophy come to be in response to a universal human need – and the ideals toward which they aim are universal. The task of philosophy is inseparably bound to the task of education. In an ideal sense, the aim of education: cultivation of our physical, emotional and intellectual powers, transmission of skills for the production of things useful and pleasing, cultura…
Paideia Platonikê
During the Middle Platonic period, from the second-century CE on, and in a more elaborately structured way from the time of Iamblichus (early fourth-century CE) on, the Platonist Schools of later antiquity took their students through a fixed sequence of Platonic dialogues, beginning with the Alcibiades I, concerned as it was with the theme of self-knowledge, and ending—at least in the later period—with the Timaeus and Parmenides, representing the…
The Reception of Aristotle in Antiochus and Cicero
Pythagoreanism in the Academic tradition
The influence of Pythagoreanism of one form or another on Platonists from Speusippus in the Old Academy to Numenius of Apamea in the later second century AD can be seen to be pervasive, though never forming more than one element in the mix, along with Aristotelianism and Stoicism. If Speusippus and Xenocrates of Chalcedon established the doctrinal parameters of later Pythagoreanism, it is to another, rather idiosyncratic, member of the Old Academ…
Women as “wool-workers” and “sex-workers” in Athens (fourth century BCE)
The building Z3 of the Kerameikos in Athens offers a very good example of the questions arising when studying women at work in the ivth century BC (and outside the private context of the household). The disposition of the rooms and the material excavated lead to the identification of building Z3 as a textile fabric and, perhaps, a place for prostitution. Without offering answers to all questions about the organization of labor in the well-known A…
Iamblichus and the Foundations of Late Platonism
The Justice of Constantine
The Justice of Constantine examines Constantine's judicial and administrative legislation and his efforts to maintain control over the imperial bureaucracy, to guarantee the working of Roman justice, and to keep the will of his subjects throughout the Roman Empire. I have uploaded the front matter and introduction here
Is travel-time to a specialist centre a risk factor for non-referral, non-attendance and loss to follow-up among patients with hepatitis C (HCV) infection
The Ideas as thoughts of God
Xenocrates’ Nous-Monad The precise origin of the concept of the Platonic Forms, or Ideas, as thoughts of God is a long-standing puzzle in the history of Platonism, which I am on record as dismissing somewhat brusquely in various works. I am glad to have an opportunity to return to it now, in this distinguished company. I propose to begin my consideration of it on this occasion by returning to the seminal article of Audrey Rich, published in Mnemo…
On the daimonion of Socrates
Plutarch's dialogue »On the daimonion of Socrates« is a unique combination of exciting historical romance and serious philosophical and religious discussion: A narrator from Boeotian Thebes tells his Athenian friend how Thebes was liberated from Spartan domination in a fateful night of midwinter 379/8 BC and connects this with the retelling of a fascinating philosophical discussion about the famous daimonion of Socrates in the afternoon and eveni…
The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul
Plato's doctrine of the soul, its immaterial nature, its parts or faculties, and its fate after death (and before birth) came to have an enormous influence on the great religious traditions that sprang up in late antiquity, beginning with Judaism (in the person of Philo of Alexandria), and continuing with Christianity, from St. Paul on through the Alexandrian and Cappadocian Fathers to Byzantium, and finally with Islamic thinkers from Al-kindi on…
Iamblichus and the theory of the vehicle of the soul
Medea
Salt and Olives
John Dillon's exploration of Athenian society vividly brings to life how the ancient Greeks behaved towards each other. How did husbands treat their wives and parents their children? What were the rights enjoyed, and the perils faced, by a courtesan? What were the obligations of love and friendship between men and men, men and women, and men and boys? He shows how slaves were to be treated and what it was like to be a slave or a slave's child; an…
The Justice of Constantine
The Justice of Constantine examines Constantine's judicial and administrative legislation and his efforts to maintain control over the imperial bureaucracy, to guarantee the working of Roman justice, and to keep the will of his subjects throughout the Roman Empire. I have uploaded the front matter and introduction here
Is travel-time to a specialist centre a risk factor for non-referral, non-attendance and loss to follow-up among patients with hepatitis C (HCV) infection
A Roman Timber Building on the Southwark Waterfront, London
Rescue excavations in 1987–88 on the site of Courage's Brewery, Southwark, near the River Thames in central London, uncovered the very well-preserved remains of a timber building, dated by dendrochronology to A.D. 152–53. The building, 4.7 m wide and at least 10.4 m long, was of timber frame construction, with base plates, post-and-plank walls, a floor of sawn planks below contemporary ground level, to which there was a ramped entrance, and indic…
A Platonist Ars Amatoria
The concept of an ‘art of love’ has been popularised for all time by the naughty masterpiece of Ovid. A good deal of critical attention has been devoted to this work in recent times, including some to his possible sources, but under this latter rubric attention has chiefly been directed rather to his parody of more serious types of handbook, such as an ars medica , an ars grammatica , or an ars rhetorica , than to the possibility of his having pr…
Humanism vs. competency
The roots of Western philosophy lie with the Greeks. Nevertheless, education and philosophy come to be in response to a universal human need – and the ideals toward which they aim are universal. The task of philosophy is inseparably bound to the task of education. In an ideal sense, the aim of education: cultivation of our physical, emotional and intellectual powers, transmission of skills for the production of things useful and pleasing, cultura…
The Philosopher and Society in Late Antiquity
Ganymede as the Logos
Philo's attitude to the mythologizing activities of the Greeks is well known. In many passages he contrasts the practices of Greek writers unfavourably with that of Moses. In one passage ( Conf. 2 ff.), for example, he condemns those who see the Tower of Babel story asa reflection of that of Otus and Ephialtes' assault on Olympus; the truth, he asserts, is quite the contrary — the Greeks have borrowed the story from Moses. On the other hand, Phil…
The concept of two intellects
176 The concept of two intellects: A Footnote to the History of Platonism JOHN DILLON I n the Adversus Nationes of Arnobius (II 25), we have the following reference to Chaldaean doctrine: "Haecine est anima docta illa quam dicitis, immortalis perfecta divina, post deum principem rerum et post mentes geminas locum optinens quartum et afluens ex crateribus vivis?" "Is this that 'educated' soul that you talk about, immortal, perfect and divine, occu…
Harpocration's "Commentary on Plato"
Research Article| January 01 1971 Harpocration's "Commentary on Plato": Fragments of a Middle Platonic Commentary John Dillon John Dillon Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California Studies in Classical Antiquity (1971) 4: 125–146. https://doi.org/10.2307/25010619 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo …
Religion and Literature
RELIGION AND LITERATURE Get access The Justice of Zeus. Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 41. By HUGH LIOYD-JHONESBerkeley: University of California Press, 1971, xiv+230 pp. $8.50. LC. No. 71-121190. JOHN DILLON JOHN DILLON University of CaliforniaBerkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLI, Issue 1, March 1973, Pages 138–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel…
The concept of two intellects
176 The concept of two intellects: A Footnote to the History of Platonism JOHN DILLON I n the Adversus Nationes of Arnobius (II 25), we have the following reference to Chaldaean doctrine: "Haecine est anima docta illa quam dicitis, immortalis perfecta divina, post deum principem rerum et post mentes geminas locum optinens quartum et afluens ex crateribus vivis?" "Is this that 'educated' soul that you talk about, immortal, perfect and divine, occu…
De Jamblique a Proclus
The Literary Microcosm. Theories of Interpretation of the Later Neoplatonists
The Classical Heritage in Islam
From Iamblichus to Eriugena. An Investigation of the Prehistory and Evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian Tradition
Polemonis Academici Fragmenta
Ganymede as the Logos
Philo's attitude to the mythologizing activities of the Greeks is well known. In many passages he contrasts the practices of Greek writers unfavourably with that of Moses. In one passage ( Conf. 2 ff.), for example, he condemns those who see the Tower of Babel story asa reflection of that of Otus and Ephialtes' assault on Olympus; the truth, he asserts, is quite the contrary — the Greeks have borrowed the story from Moses. On the other hand, Phil…
Speusippus in Iamblichus
Xenocrates’ Metaphysics
Studies in Platonism and Patristic Thought
"Winston-Dillon's "Two Treatises of Philo
The Revolutions of Wisdom
Tampering with the Timaeus
Logos and Trinity
I think it would be generally agreed that the two surest ways of getting into serious trouble in Christian circles in the first three or four centuries of the Church's existence were to engage in speculation either on the nature of Christ the Son and his relation to his Father, or on the mutual relations of the members of the Trinity. While passions have cooled somewhat in the intervening centuries, these are still now subjects which a Classical …
Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism
Plotinus At Work on Platonism
‘These teachings are, therefore, no novelties, no inventions of today, but long since stated, if not stressed; our doctrine here is the explanation of an earlier, and can show the antiquity of these opinions on the testimony of Plato himself.’ This quotation, from Enn . V 1.8, where Plotinus is actually presenting his doctrine of the three hypostases – a metaphysical elaboration never envisaged by Plato – encapsulates the interesting relationship…
La Trame et la Chaine, II
Two Greek Aristotelian Commentators on the Intellect
The Golden Chain
La Philosophie de Moïse. Essai de reconstitution d'un commentaire philosophique préphilonien du PentateuqueRichard Goulet Paris
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A Platonist Ars Amatoria
The concept of an ‘art of love’ has been popularised for all time by the naughty masterpiece of Ovid. A good deal of critical attention has been devoted to this work in recent times, including some to his possible sources, but under this latter rubric attention has chiefly been directed rather to his parody of more serious types of handbook, such as an ars medica , an ars grammatica , or an ars rhetorica , than to the possibility of his having pr…
Heresiography in Context
A new assessment of the philosophical traditions Hippolytus depends on and of his method of presentation. This book deals with the reception of the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle in the first centuries CE, and is a major contribution to our knowledge of the various currents in Pre-Neoplatonic Greek philosophy
"Classical Allusions in Seamus Heaney's "The Haw Lantern
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