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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&#160;http://www.brill.com/products/reference-work/brills-companion-reception-plato-antiquityBrill’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.Contributors are: Crystal Addey, Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Francesca Alesse, Polymnia Athanassiadi, Dirk Baltzly, Mauro Bonazzi, Michael Chase, Dennis Clark, John Finamore, Ryan C. Fowler, Gary Gabor, Lloyd Gerson, Michael Griffin, Christina Hoenig, Phillip Sidney Horky, Danielle A. Layne, Carl S. O’Brien, Dominic J. O’Meara, Jan Opsomer, Federico M. Petrucci, Ilaria Ramelli, François Renaud, Julius Rocca, Geert Roskam, Charles Snyder, Harold Tarrant, John D. Turner, Gerd Van Riel, Sarah Klitenic Wear, Sami Yli-Karjanmaa.Table of contentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart I. Early Developments in ReceptionIntroduction: The Old Academy to Cicero1 Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of PhilosophyPhillip Sidney Horky2 The Influence of the Platonic Dialogues on Stoic Ethics from Zeno to Panaetius of RhodesFrancesca Alesse3 Plato and the Freedom of the New AcademyCharles E. Snyder4 Return to Plato and Transition to Middle Platonism in CiceroFrançois RenaudPart II. Early Imperial Reception of PlatoIntroduction: Early Imperial Reception of Plato5 From Fringe Reading to Core Curriculum: Commentary, Introduction and Doctrinal SummaryHarold Tarrant6 Philo of AlexandriaSami Yli-Karjanmaa7 Plutarch of Chaeronea and the Anonymous Commentator on the TheaetetusMauro Bonazzi8 Theon of Smyrna: Re-thinking Platonic Mathematics in Middle PlatonismFederico M. Petrucci9 Cupid's Swan from the Academy (De Plat. 1.1, 183): Apuleius' Reception of PlatoGeert Roskam10 Alcinous' Reception of PlatoCarl S. O'Brien11 Numenius: Portrait of a PlatonicusPolymnia Athanassiadi12 Galen and Middle Platonism: The Case of the DemiurgeJulius Rocca13 Variations of Receptions of Plato during the Second SophisticRyan C. FowlerPart III. Early Christianity and Late Antique PlatonismIntroduction: Early Christianity and Late Antique Platonism14 Origen to EvagriusIlaria Ramelli15 Sethian Gnostic Appropriations of PlatoJohn D. Turner16 Plotinus and PlatonismLloyd P. Gerson17 PorphyryMichael Chase18 The Anonymous Commentary on the ParmenidesDennis Clark19 Iamblichus, the Commentary Tradition, and the SoulJohn Finamore20 Amelius and Theodore of AsineDirk Baltzly21 Plato's Political Dialogues in the Writings of Julian the EmperorDominic J. O'Meara22 Plato's Women ReadersCrystal Addey23 CalcidiusChristina Hoenig24 Augustine's PlatoGerd Van Riel25 Orthodoxy and Allegory: Syrianus' Metaphysical HermeneuticsSarah Klitenic Wear26 Hermias: On Plato's PhaedrusHarold Tarrant and Dirk Baltzly27 Proclus and the Authority of PlatoJan Opsomer28 Damascius the Platonic Successor: Socratic Activity and Philosophy in the 6thCentury CESara Ahbel-Rappe29 The Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic PhilosophyDanielle A. Layne30 Olympiodorus of AlexandriaMichael Griffin31 Simplicius of Cilicia: Plato's Last InterpreterGary GaborConclusionBibliographyGeneral IndexIndex Locorum