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Literary, Philosophical, and Religious Studies in the Platonic Tradition.Papers from 7th annual conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies.Edited by John F. Finamore and John Phillips, 2013.&#160;This anthology contains twelve papers on various aspects of Platonism, ranging from Plato's Republic to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus and Hermias, to the use of Platonic philosophy by Cudworth and Schleiermacher. The papers cover topics in ethics, psychology, religion, poetics, art, epistemology, and metaphysics.(Text by the editors)&#160;Contents:Ecstasy Between Divine and Human: Re-assessing Agency in Iamblichean Divination and Theurgy - Crystal AddeySoul's Desire and the Origin of Time in the Philosophy of Plotinus - José BaracatProvidence et liberté chez Jamblique de Chalcis - Jean-Michel CharrueSleep and Waking in Plotinus - Bernard ColletteThe Spiritual Body. Porphyry's Theory of the ochêma in Ralph Cudworth's True Intellectual System of the Universe - Anna CorriasIamblichus' Doctrine of the Soul Revisited - John DillonThe Distorted City in the Republic - Gary GurtlerProclus on the Cognitive Value of Mythic Poetry. A Hegelian Reading - Oiva KuismaNeoplatonic Allegories in Hermias - Christina-Panagiota ManoleaThe Splendor of Grace: Plotinus and the Cistercian Tradition - Martino Rossi MontiThe Reception of Schleiermacher's View on Plato in 19th Century Poland - Tomaz Mroz The Nature of Art and the Art of Nature in Plotinus - Michael Wagner