Bibliography

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. A Prolegomena to the Third Sophistic 1
5. Introduction to Plato in the Third Sophistic 31
6. Section 1: Platonist Philosophers
7. Reason and Irrationality: The intersection of philosophy and magic in later Neoplatonism 39
8. Rhetoric and Platonism in Fifth-Century Athens 57
9. “Pliable Platonism?” Olympiodorus and the Profession of Philosophy in Sixth-Century Alexandria 73
10. Section 2: Platonist Rhetors
11. Sic Traditur a Platone: Plato and the philosophers in Lactantius 101
12. Libanius Versus Plato 121
13. Platonic Ethics and Politics in Themistius and Julian 131
14. Plato (and Others) in the Orations of Themistius 145
15. Bibliography 162
16. Section 3: Eusebius and the Cappadocian Fathers
17. The Platonism of Eusebius of Caesarea 171
18. Plato in the Cappadocian Fathers 193
19. Plato in Origen’s and Gregory of Nyssa’s Conception of the ᾿Aρχή and the Τέλος 211
20. Bibliography 230
21. Section 4: Christian Platonism and Rhetoric in Gaza
22. Choricius on Literature: A study of Platonic vocabulary referring to literary creation in Choricius of Gaza 239
23. “The Academy and the Lyceum are Among Us”: Plato and the Platonic tradition in the works of Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius 259
24. Index Locorum 283
25. Index Rerum 303