Overview

Volume 2 examines and establishes for the first time evidence for a significant knowledge of the Parmenides in Philo, Clement, and patristic sources. It offers an extensive and balanced analysis of the case for and against the various possible attributions of date and authorship of the Anonymous Commentary in relation to Gnosticism, Middle Platonism, and Neoplatonism and argues that on balance the case for a pre-Plotinian authorship is warranted.

Full Product Details

Author:   John D. Turner ,  Kevin Corrigan ,  Kevin Corrigan
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   3
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9789004177949

ISBN 10:   9004177949
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   01 March 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Parmenides Interpretation from Plotinus to Damascius 1. Plotinus and the Parmenides: Problems of Interpretation Matthias Vorwerk 2. Plotinus and the Hypotheses of the Second Part of Plato's Parmenides Kevin Corrigan 3. The Reception of the Parmenides before Proclus Luc Brisson 4. Is Porphyry the Source Used by Marius Victorinus? Volker Henning Drecoll 5. Porphyry and the Gnostics: Reassessing Pierre Hadot's Thesis in Light of the Second- and Third-Century Sethian Treatises Tuomas Rasimus 6. Columns VII-VIII of the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides: Vestiges of a Logical Interpretation Luc Brisson 7. Iamblichus's Interpretation of the Parmenides' Third Hypothesis John F. Finamore 8. Syrianus's Exegesis of the Second Hypothesis of the Parmenides: The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe Revealed John M. Dillon 9. Damascius on the Third Hypothesis of the Parmenides Sara Ahbel-Rappe 10. Metaphysicizing the Aristotelian Categories: Two References to the Parmenides in Simplicius's Commentary on the Categories (75,6 and 291,2 Kalbfleisch) Gerald Bechtle Section 2: The Hidden Influence of the Parmenides in Philo, Origen, and Later Patristic Thought 11. Early Alexandrian Theology and Plato's Parmenides David T. Runia 12. Christians and the Parmenides Mark Edwards 13. Origen's Platonism: Questions and Caveats Mark Edwards 14. Plato's Parmenides among the Cappadocian Fathers: The Problem of a Possible Influence or the Meaning of a Lack? Jean Reynard 15. The Importance of the Parmenides for Trinitarian Theology in the Third and Fourth Centuries c.e. Kevin Corrigan 16. Pseudo-Dionysius, the Parmenides, and the Problem of Contradiction Andrew Radde-Gallwitz References 255 Contributors 269 Subject-Name Index 273 Index Locorum 289

Reviews

Author Information

John D. Turner is Cotner Professor of Religious Studies and Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, specializing in the study of ancient Gnosticism. He has published critical editions of seven Nag Hammadi texts and has authored numerous books including Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition (Peeters). Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. His many publications include Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the Fourth Century (Ashgate), Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern, and Reading Ancient Texts. Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien: Volume 1: The Presocratics and Plato and Volume 2: Aristotle to Augustine (all from Brill).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions