From the Old Academy to Later Neo-Platonism

Contents: Preface Part I Socrates, Plato, and the Old Academy: Midwifery and the Clouds The Hippias Major and Socratic theories of pleasure The composition of Plato's Gorgias Plato's Euthydemus and the two faces of Socrates Chronology and narrative apparatus in Plato's dialogues Orality and Plato's narrative dialogues Plato, prejudice, and the mature-age student in antiquity Myth as a tool of persuasion in Plato Review of Leonardo TarA!n, Speusippus of Athens. Part II The Platonic Revival and the 2nd Century AD: Agreement and the self-evident in Philo of Larissa The date of anon. In Theaetetum Middle Platonism and the 7th Epistle Logos and the development of Middle Platonism Platonic interpretation in Aulus Gellius Numenius Fr. 13 and Plato's Timaeus Platonism before Plato: tracing a philosophy to ever earlier roots The proximity of philosophy and medicine in the age of Galen Shadows of justice in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Part III Later Platonism: The Gorgias and the demiurge More on Zeno's Forty Logoi Olympiodorus and history Restoring Olympiodorus' syllogistic Politike Eudaimonia: Olympiodorus on Plato's Republic Indexes.

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