Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage, Volume 1 : History and Interpretation from the Old Academy to Later Platonism and Gnosticism.

Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Section 1: Plato, from the Old Academy to Middle Platonism -- 1: The Place of the Parmenides in Plato's Thought and in the Subsequent Tradition, Kevin Corrigan -- 2: Speusippus's Neutral Conception of the One and Plato's Parmenides, Gerald Bechtle -- 3: The Fragment of Speusippus in Column I of the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides, Luc Brisson -- 4: Speusippus and the Ontological Interpretation of the Parmenides, John Dillon -- 5: The Indefinite Dyad in Sextus Empiricus's Report (Adversus Mathematicos 10.248-283) and Plato's Parmenides, Thomas A. Szlezák -- 6: Plato and Parmenides in Agreement: Ammonius's Praise of God as One-Being in Plutarch's The E at Delphi, Zlatko Pleše -- 7: Moderatus, E. R. Dodds, and the Development of Neoplatonist Emanation, J. Noel Hubler -- Section 2: Middle Platonic and Gnostic Texts -- 8: The Platonizing Sethian Treatises, Marius Victorinus's Philosophical Sources, and Pre-Plotinian Parmenides Commentaries, John D. Turner -- 9: Is There a Gnostic "Henological" Speculation?, Johanna Brankaer -- 10: The Greek Text behind the Parallel Sections in Zostrianos and Marius Victorinus, Volker Henning Drecoll -- 11: The Chaldaean Oracles and the Metaphysics of the Sethian Platonizing Treatises, John D. Turner -- 12: A Criticism of the Chaldaean Oracles and of the Gnostics in Columns IX and X of the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides, Luc Brisson -- 13: The Anonymous Commentary on Plato's Parmenides and Aristotle's Categories: Some Preliminary Remarks, Gerald Bechtle -- 14: Negative Theology and Radical Conceptual Purification in the Anonymous Commentary on Plato's Parmenides, Alain Lernould -- 15: A Criticism of Numenius in the Last Columns (XI-XIV) of the Anonymous Commentar yon the Parmenides, Luc Brisson -- References -- Contributors.

Subject-Name Index -- Index Locorum.

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