The Platonic Heritage

Contents: The riddle of the Timaeus: is Plato sowing clues?; Plotinus, Speusippus and the Platonic Parmenides; The Timaeus in the old Academy; Philip of Opus and the theology of Plato's Laws; Atomism in the old Academy; Theophrastus' critique of the old Academy in the Metaphysics; The pleasures and perils of soul-gardening; Asômatos: nuances of incorporeality in Philo; Thrasyllus and the Logos; Plutarch's debt to Xenocrates; Plutarch and the inseparable intellect; Plutarch and God: theodicy and cosmogony in the thought of Plutarch; Plutarch's use of unidentified quotations; The social role of the philosopher in Athens in the 2nd century CE: some remarks; Pedantry and pedestrianism? Some reflections on the middle Platonic commentary tradition; Monotheism in the Gnostic tradition; An unknown Platonist on God; Holy and not so holy: on the interpretation of late antique biography; Plotinus on whether the stars are causes; Iamblichus' Noera Theoria of Aristotle's Categories; Iamblichus' identifications of the subject-matters of the hypotheses; Iamblichus on the personal daemon; The theology of Julian's Hymn to King Helios; A case-study in commentary: the neoplatonic exegesis of the Prooimia od Plato's dialogues; Damascius on procession and return; 'The eye of the soul': the doctrine of the higher consciousness in the neoplatonic and sufic traditions; Indexes.