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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY IN LATE ANTIQUITY The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 ce. Designed as a successor to The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (ed. A. H. Armstrong), it takes into account some forty years of schol- arship since the publication of that volume. The contributors examine philosophy as it entered literature, science and religion, and offer new and extensive assess- ments of philosophers who until recently have been mostly ignored. The volume also includes a complete digest of all philosophical works known to have been written during this period. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in this rich and still emerging field. lloyd p. gerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous books including Ancient Epistemology (Cambridge, 2009), Aristotle and Other Platonists (2005) and Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato (2004), as well as the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (1996). www.cambridge.org © in this web service Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76440-7 - The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Volume I Edited by Lloyd P. Gerson Frontmatter More information
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The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity comprises over forty speciallycommissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 ce.Designed as a successor to The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early MedievalPhilosophy (ed. A. H. Armstrong), it takes into account some forty years of schol-arship since the publication of that volume. The contributors examine philosophyas it entered literature, science and religion, and offer new and extensive assess-ments of philosophers who until recently have been mostly ignored. The volumealso includes a complete digest of all philosophical works known to have beenwritten during this period. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interestedin this rich and still emerging field.
lloyd p. gerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He isthe author of numerous books including Ancient Epistemology (Cambridge, 2009),Aristotle and Other Platonists (2005) and Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato (2004),as well as the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (1996).
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CONTENTS
VOLUME I
List of contributors page xi
List of maps xv
General introduction 1lloyd p. gerson
I Philosophy in the later Roman EmpireIntroduction to Part I 11
1 The late Roman Empire from the Antonines to Constantine 13elizabeth depalma digeser
2 The transmission of ancient wisdom: texts, doxographies, libraries 25gabor betegh
3 Cicero and the New Academy 39carlos levy
4 Platonism before Plotinus 63harold tarrant
5 The Second Sophistic 100ryan fowler
6 Numenius of Apamea 115mark edwards
7 Stoicism 126brad inwood
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8 Peripatetics 140robert w. sharples
9 The Chaldaean Oracles 161john f. finamore and sarah iles johnston
10 Gnosticism 174edward moore and john d. turner
11 Ptolemy 197jacqueline feke and alexander jones
12 Galen 210r. j. hankinson
II The first encounter of Judaism and Christianity withancient Greek philosophyIntroduction to Part II 233
13 Philo of Alexandria 235david winston
14 Justin Martyr 258denis minns
15 Clement of Alexandria 270catherine osborne
16 Origen 283emanuela prinzivalli
III Plotinus and the new PlatonismIntroduction to Part III 299
17 Plotinus 301dominic j. o’meara
18 Porphyry and his school 325andrew smith
19 Iamblichus of Chalcis and his school 358john dillon
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IV Philosophy in the age of ConstantineIntroduction to Part IV 375
20 Philosophy in a Christian empire: from the great persecution toTheodosius I 376elizabeth depalma digeser
21 Themistius 397inna kupreeva
22 The Alexandrian school. Theon of Alexandria and Hypatia 417alain bernard
23 Hierocles of Alexandria 437hermann schibli
V The second encounter of Christianity with ancientGreek philosophyIntroduction to Part V 457
24 Basil of Caesarea 459lewis ayres and andrew radde-gallwitz
25 Gregory of Nyssa 471anthony meredith
26 Gregory of Nazianzus 482john a. mcguckin
27 Calcidius 498gretchen reydams-schils
28 Nemesius of Emesa 509beatrice motta
29 Synesius of Cyrene 520jay bregman
30 Marius Victorinus 538stephen a. cooper
31 Augustine 552giovanni catapano
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VI Late PlatonismIntroduction to Part VI page 583
32 From Constantine to Justinian 585elizabeth depalma digeser
33 Plutarch of Athens 608angela longo
34 Syrianus 616angela longo
35 Proclus 630carlos steel
36 Ammonius Hermeiou and his school 654david blank
37 Damascius 667gerd van riel
38 Olympiodorus 697jan opsomer
39 Simplicius of Cilicia 711han baltussen
40 John Philoponus 733koenraad verrycken
41 Priscian of Lydia and Pseudo-Simplicius on the soul 756f. a. j. de haas
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VII The third encounter of Christianity with ancientGreek philosophyIntroduction to Part VII 765
42 Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite 767eric perl
43 Boethius 788john magee
44 Maximus the Confessor 813david bradshaw
45 John Scotus Eriugena 829wayne hankey and lloyd p. gerson
VIII Philosophy in transitionIntroduction to Part VIII 841
46 Early Byzantine philosophy 843katerina ierodiakonou and george zografidis
47 The origins of Islamic philosophy 869cristina d’ancona
48 Ancient philosophy becomes medieval philosophy 894stephen gersh
Appendix: List of works of ancient authors 915
List of abbreviations 966
Bibliography 983
Index locorum 1183
General index 1249
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CONTRIBUTORS
Lewis AyresBede Chair of Catholic TheologyDurham University
Han BaltussenClassics, School of HumanitiesUniversity of Adelaide
Alain BernardUniversite de Paris XII – IUFM de
Creteil
Gabor BeteghDepartment of PhilosophyCentral European University
David BlankDepartment of ClassicsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
David BradshawDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Kentucky
Jay BregmanDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Maine
Giovanni CatapanoDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Padua
Stephen CooperDepartment of Religious StudiesFranklin and Marshall College
Cristina D’AnconaDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Pisa
Frans A. J. de HaasInstitute of PhilosophyUniversity of Leiden
Elizabeth DePalma DigeserDepartment of HistoryUniversity of California, Santa
Barbara
John DillonSchool of ClassicsTrinity College Dublin
Mark EdwardsFaculty of TheologyUniversity of Oxford
Jacqueline FekeIntroduction to the Humanities
ProgramStanford University
John F. FinamoreDepartment of ClassicsUniversity of Iowa
Ryan FowlerDepartments of Classics and
PhilosophyKnox College
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Stephen GershMedieval InstituteUniversity of Notre Dame
Lloyd P. GersonDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Toronto
Wayne HankeyDepartment of ClassicsDalhousie University
R. J. HankinsonDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Texas at Austin
Katerina IerodiakonouDepartment of Philosophy and
History of ScienceUniversity of Athens
Brad InwoodDepartments of Classics and
PhilosophyUniversity of Toronto
Sarah Iles JohnstonDepartment of Greek and LatinOhio State University
Alexander JonesInstitute for the Study of the Ancient
WorldNew York University
Inna KupreevaDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Edinburgh
Carlos LevyUniversite de Paris XII – Val de
Marne
Angela LongoDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Geneva
John MageeDepartment of Classics and Centre
for Medieval StudiesUniversity of Toronto
John A. McGuckinUnion Theological Seminary and
Columbia University
Anthony MeredithHeythrop College, University of
London
Denis MinnsFaculty of TheologyUniversity of Oxford
Edward MooreSt Elias School of Orthodox
Theology
Beatrice MottaUniversity of Padua
Dominic O’MearaDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Fribourg
Jan OpsomerDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Koln
Catherine OsborneSchool of PhilosophyUniversity of East Anglia
Eric PerlDepartment of PhilosophyLoyola Marymount University
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Emanuela PrinzivalliDipartimento di studi
storico-religiosiSapienza University of Rome
Andrew Radde-GallwitzDepartment of TheologyLoyola University of Chicago
Gretchen Reydams-SchilsProgram of Liberal StudiesUniversity of Notre Dame
Gerd Van RielInstitute of PhilosophyUniversity of Leuven
Hermann SchibliDepartment of ClassicsUniversity of Passau
Robert W. SharplesDepartment of Greek and LatinUniversity College London
Andrew SmithDepartment of ClassicsUniversity College Dublin
Carlos SteelInstitute of PhilosophyUniversity of Leuven
Harold TarrantSchool of Humanities and Social
ScienceUniversity of Newcastle
John D. TurnerDepartment of Classics and Religious
StudiesUniversity of Nebraska
Koenraad VerryckenDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Antwerp
David WinstonCenter for Jewish StudiesGraduate Theological UnionUniversity of California, Berkeley
George ZografidisDepartment of PhilosophyAristotle University of Thessaloniki
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1 The Byzantine Empire, c. 500 page xvi2 The Roman world of the fifth and sixth centuries xviii
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