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Platonic Theories of PrayerEdited by John Dillon (Trinity College Dublin) and Andrei Timotin (Romanian Academy - ISEES) - 12/2015Platonic Theories of Prayer is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. The volume originates from a panel on the topic held at the 2013 ISNS meeting in Cardiff, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers. Together they offer a comprehensive view of the various roles and levels of prayer characteristic of this period. The concept of prayer is shown to include not just formal petitionary or encomiastic prayer, but also theurgical practices and various states of meditation and ecstasy practiced by such major figures as Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus, Damascius or Dionysius the Areopagite.(Text by the organizers)&#160;ContentsIntroduction - John Dillon and Andrei TimotinThe Platonic Philosopher at Prayer - John DillonModes of Prayer in the Hellenic Tradition - Gilles DorivalPhilo on Prayer as Devotional Study - Menahem LuzPrayer in Maximus of Tyre - Carl O’BrienAwaiting the Sun: A Plotinian Form of Contemplative Prayer - Michael WakoffPorphyry on Prayer - Andrei TimotinPrayer in Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles - Luc BrissonCosmic Etiology and Demiurgic Mimesis in Proclus’ Account of Prayer - Danielle A. LayneThe Transmission of Fire: Proclus’ Theurgical Prayers - José Manuel RedondoDamascius and Dionysius on Prayer and Silence - Marilena VladIndexes - John Dillon and Andrei TimotinThe Transmission of Fire: Proclus’ Theurgical Prayers - José Manuel RedondoDamascius and Dionysius on Prayer and Silence - Marilena VladIndexes - John Dillon and Andrei Timotin