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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity&#160;Edited by Harold Tarrant (University of Newcastle Australia), Danielle A. Layne (Gonzaga University), Dirk Baltzly (University of Tasmania and Monash University) and François Renaud (Université de Moncton), 2017Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as philosopher, as author, and more generally as a central figure in the intellectual heritage of Classical Greece, from his death in the fourth century BCE until the Platonist and Aristotelian commentators in the sixth century CE. The volume is divided into three sections: ‘Early Developments in Reception’ (four chapters); ‘Early Imperial Reception’ (nine chapters); and ‘Early Christianity and Late Antique Platonism’ (eighteen chapters). Sectional introductions cover matters of importance that could not easily be covered in dedicated chapters. The book demonstrates the great variety of approaches to and interpretations of Plato among even his most dedicated ancient readers, offering some salutary lessons for his modern readers too.(Text by the organizers)Table of contentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart I. Early Developments in ReceptionIntroduction: The Old Academy to Cicero1 Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of Philosophy - Phillip Sidney Horky2 The Influence of the Platonic Dialogues on Stoic Ethics from Zeno to Panaetius of Rhodes - Francesca Alesse3 Plato and the Freedom of the New Academy - Charles E. Snyder4 Return to Plato and Transition to Middle Platonism in Cicero - François RenaudPart II. Early Imperial Reception of PlatoIntroduction: Early Imperial Reception of Plato5 From Fringe Reading to Core Curriculum: Commentary, Introduction and Doctrinal Summary - Harold Tarrant6 Philo of Alexandria - Sami Yli-Karjanmaa7 Plutarch of Chaeronea and the Anonymous Commentator on the Theaetetus - Mauro Bonazzi8 Theon of Smyrna: Re-thinking Platonic Mathematics in Middle Platonism - Federico M. Petrucci9 Cupid's Swan from the Academy (De Plat. 1.1, 183): Apuleius' Reception of Plato - Geert Roskam10 Alcinous' Reception of Plato - Carl S. O'Brien11 Numenius: Portrait of a Platonicus - Polymnia Athanassiadi12 Galen and Middle Platonism: The Case of the Demiurge - Julius Rocca13 Variations of Receptions of Plato during the Second Sophistic - Ryan C. FowlerPart III. Early Christianity and Late Antique PlatonismIntroduction: Early Christianity and Late Antique Platonism14 Origen to Evagrius - Ilaria Ramelli15 Sethian Gnostic Appropriations of Plato - John D. Turner16 Plotinus and Platonism - Lloyd P. Gerson17 Porphyry - Michael Chase18 The Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides - Dennis Clark19 Iamblichus, the Commentary Tradition, and the Soul - John Finamore20 Amelius and Theodore of Asine - Dirk Baltzly21 Plato's Political Dialogues in the Writings of Julian the Emperor - Dominic J. O'Meara22 Plato's Women Readers - Crystal Addey23 Calcidius - Christina Hoenig24 Augustine's Plato - Gerd Van Riel25 Orthodoxy and Allegory: Syrianus' Metaphysical Hermeneutics - Sarah Klitenic Wear26 Hermias: On Plato's Phaedrus - Harold Tarrant and Dirk Baltzly27 Proclus and the Authority of Plato - Jan Opsomer28 Damascius the Platonic Successor: Socratic Activity and Philosophy in the 6th Century CE - Sara Ahbel-Rappe29 The Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy - Danielle A. Layne30 Olympiodorus of Alexandria - Michael Griffin31 Simplicius of Cilicia: Plato's Last Interpreter - Gary GaborConclusionBibliographyGeneral IndexIndex Locorum