The Golden Chain

Abstract

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': some reflections on a controversy in later Greek ethics The transcendence of God in Philo: some possible sources Philo and the Stoic doctrine of eupatheiai Ganymede as the Logos: traces of 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 AisthA*sis noA*tA*: a doctrine of spiritual senses 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: some remarks on the imagery of light in the first chapter of Origen's Peri ArchA'n The magical power of names in Origen and Later Platonism Plotinus and the trancendental 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 dialectic Image, symbol and analogy: three basic concepts of Neoplatonic exegesis Addenda and corrigenda Index.