| Summary: | Contents: Introduction; What happened to Plato's Garden?; Self-definition in Later Platonism; The Academy in the Middle Platonic period; Female principles in Platonism; Tampering with the Timaeus: ideological emendations in Plato; Speusippus in Iamblichus; Xenocrates' Metaphysics: Fr. 15 (Heinze) re-examined; 'Metriopatheia and apatheia': on a controversy in later Greek ethics; The transcendence of God in Philo: possible sources; Philo and the Stoic doctrine of eupatheiai; Ganymede as the Logos: a forgotten allegorisation in Philo?; The descent of the soul in Middle Platonic and Gnostic thought; Plutarch and 2nd-century Platonism; Harpocration's commentary on Plato: fragments of a Middle Platonic commentary; A date for the death of Nicomachus of Gerasa?; The concept of two intellects: a footnote to the history of Platonism; The Platonising of Mithra; Plotinus, Philo and Origen on the grades of virtue; Aisthêsis noêtê: a doctrine of spiritual sensen in Origen and in Plotinus; The theory of three classes of men in Plotinus and in Philo; Origen's doctrine of the Trinity and some later Neoplatonic theories; Looking on the Light: remarks on the imagery of light in the first chapter of Origen's Peri Archôn; The magical power of names in Origen and Later Platonism; Plotinus and the transcendental imagination; Plotinus, Enn. III 9, 1 and later views on the intelligible world; Iamblichus and the origin of the doctrine of Henads; Proclus and the Parmenidean dialect; Image, symbol and analogy: basic concepts of Neoplatonic exegesis; Addenda; Index.
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
golden rule 
Goldener (Johannes)