The Middle Platonists, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220

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Cornell University Press, 1996 - History - 457 pages
Table of Contents Preface Abbreviations 1 The Old Academy and the Themes of Middle Platonism 1 2 Antiochus of Ascalon: The Turn to Dogmatism 52 3 Platonism at Alexandria: Eudorus and Philo 114 4 Plutarch of Chaeroneia and the Origins of Second-Century Platonism 184 5 The Athenian School in the Second Century A.D. 231 6 The 'School of Gaius': Shadow and Substance 266 7 The Neopythagoreans 341 8 Some Loose Ends 384 Bibliography 416 Afterword 422 General Index 453 Index of Platonic Passages 458 Modern Authorities Quoted 459.
 

Contents

THE OLD ACADEMY AND THE THEMES OF MIDDLE
1
THE TURN
2
EUDORUS AND PHILO
114
Conclusion
182
Physics
199
E Conclusion
229
SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE
266
Apuleius of Madaura
306
Nicomachus of Gerasa
352
E Numenius of Apamea
361
SOME LOOSE ENDS
384
B Some Miscellaneous Platonists
397
Conclusion
414
AFTERWORD
422
INDEXES
453
Copyright

THE NEOPYTHAGOREANS
341

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