Platonic Inheritance: Metaphysics, Ritual & Cultural Transmission

Edited by Sonsoles Costero-Quiroga, Michael J. Griffin, and Bessie Alexandra Zibara Lara.

This volume gathers fourteen new studies on the inheritance of Platonic philosophy across the duration of late antique, medieval, and cross-cultural ideas and arguments. Together, these essays present a range of intellectual and disciplinary translations of Plato’s legacy, and the metaphysical, ritual, and cultural conversations that continue to shape how the Platonic tradition is read today.

Contents:

• Plotinus on Why Unity Is Not Among the Greatest Kinds: Ennead VI.2.7-10 – Michael Wiitala
• On Unity among the Koina but Not the Megista Genē – Colin Smith
• Ennead VI.7.24-30: The Dyskherantikos Anêr in Plotinus – Harrold Tarrant
• À la source de l’esthétique néo-platonicienne : l’idéalisme du beau chez Plotin lecteur de Platon – Flora Vourch
• The Problem of the Genus of Substance in Neo-Platonic Commentators on Aristotle’s Categories – Václav Němec
• Abamon in the temple: Egyptian priestly representations in a Platonist milieu – Marina Escolano-Poveda
• Seeing is Believing: Master Abammon’s Egyptian Techniques of Epiphany – Marios Koutsoukos
• Celestial Configurations, Astral Magic and the Vehicle of the Soul in Plotinus – Akindynos Kaniamos
• Theurgy and Arabic Magic: The Practice of Hieratic Neoplatonism from the Greek Magical Papyri to the great Arabic Grimoires – Flor Herrero Valdes
• The Nature and Character of a Philosophical Martyr in Origen’s Exhortation to Martyrdom – Nicolas Galvan
• Le Néoplatonisme dans le poème de Musée, Héro et Léandre – Imane Meghazi
• Divine Knowledge and Individual Reason in Rūmī’s Masnavi – Cagla Umsu
• The resurgence of Neoplatonism in Armenia during the 13-14th centuries – Vardan Aslanyan
• Applying Recent Developments in Abstract Object Theory and Cognitive Psychology to Understanding the Forms – Bruce MacLennan

368 pages. Paperback.