The Neoplatonic Socrates

Index

GeneraL Index For ancient works see also Index Locorum. Aeschines of Sphettos, 27, 109, 169, 184n41 Agreement (and consistency), 122–23 Aim (of dialogue). See under Skopos; Strategic aim Akrasia, 18, 127–43 Alcibiades (character), 21, 24, 60, 95, 110– 14; as respondent, 121–22 Allegorical interpretation, 33, 81, 98, 153 Anonymous Prolegomena, 12, 17, 166, 176–77 Apollo, 57–60 Aporetic element, 5, 10–11 Apuleius, 17, 36–43, 49–50, 58, 168; On the God of Socrates, 38–43 Aristotle, 18, 60, 107, 127–30; Magna Moralia , 128; Nicomachean Ethics, 127–30; Protrepticus, 160 Assimilation to god, 57, 60. See also Theurgy Athena, 111 Beauty, 10, 15, 23, 25, 30–33, 78, 106, 110–14 Beierwaltes, Werner, 4–7, 165 Brickhouse, Thomas, 54–55 Brücker, Walter, 4–5 Catharsis. See Purification Cephalus (narrator), 87 Character (in dialogue), 86–91 Chase, D. P., 130 Chrysippus, 130–31, 139 Cicero, 2 Common notions, 120 Cosmos (dialogue as), 82–85, 106–7 Curriculum, 10, 32, 98–105, 134, 143 Daimonion, 16, 36–50, 52–72, 74–76, 164; voice of, 62–64 Damascius, 101–3, 164–65, 176; works involving Socrates, 165 Delphi and Delphic Oracle, 9, 21, 54, 57–58, 112, 144 Demonology, 17, 37–43, 46, 49; and Latin terminology, 39–40 Denyer, Nicholas, 125 Dialogue and dialogic form, 5–7, 14, 80–96; parts of a dialogue, 82–85 Dillon, John, 56, 94, 163 Divination, 52–76, 112, 121 Divine sign or voice. See under Daimonion Divinization. See under Assimilation to god Dorter, Kenneth, 128 Drama of dialogues, 12, 14, 91–92, 95, 125–26 Elenchus, 13–15, 51, 66–67, 70, 72, 118–26, 144–45; and catharsis, 119; and dubious argument, 124–25 Enkrateia, 127–42 Epictetus, 18, 127–42 Erôs. See Love Erotic art, 30 Erotic Intellect, 109–17 Eudorus of Alexandria, 145 Euripides, Medea, 131, 135–37 Euthyphro, 154–56 Favorinus, 23; On Socrates and His Erotic Art, 23 Ficino, 2 Frede, Michael, 107 250 General Index George, Leonard, 66 Gerson, Lloyd, 129, 132 Gill, Christopher, 131 Good (in text), 80–96 Hathaway, R. F., 5, 11, 108 Hermeneutics, 80–96, 105–6 Hermias, 15–17, 19, 25–35, 73–79, 143–45, 150–52, 163, 172–73 Hesiod, 75, 151 Homer, 74, 78 Hypostatization. See under Symbolism of characters Iamblichus, 4, 9–10, 63, 66, 98, 105, 107–8, 163, 165, 170–71; De Mysteriis, 56–57 Inspired speech, 153 Irony, 17, 21, 119–20 Irwin, Terence, 128 Julian, 2, 166, 171 Kairos, 65–69 Knowledge, human and divine, 17 Libanius, 171–72 Long, Anthony A., 132 Love and lovers, 15–16, 27–41, 109–17; corporeal love, 30–33; vulgar love, 98, 110–16 Lucian, 1–2, 19, 23–25, 168–69; True Story 24 Madness, 77–78 Maximus of Tyre, 23, 169 McPherran, Mark, 55 Medea. See under Euripides Midwifery, 13, 145 Mimêsis, 107–8 Modesty. See Irony Moral ignorance, 10 Myth, 147–52, 161–62 Numenius, 168 Olympian gods, 9–10 Olympiodorus, 10–11, 13–15, 17–18, 99– 101, 118–26, 144–45, 153–54, 156, 164, 175 O’Meara, Dominic, 63, 70 Palinode (of Phaedrus), 150–52 Panaetius, 131 Pederastic practices, 25 Plato, passim; Alcibiades I, 10–11, 15, 30– 34, 95–96, 98–100, 110–16, 118–26, 156– 60, 163–64; Apology, 26, 53, 65, 143; Clitophon, 144; Cratylus, 154–56; Gorgias , 88–89, 100–101, 153–54, 164; Literary elements, 11; Parmenides, 26, 34, 53, 88, 104–5; Phaedrus, 25–35, 73–79, 88, 144–45, 163–64; Philebus, 101–2; Protagoras , 127–28; Republic, 34–35, 75, 128–29, 131, 164; Symposium, 21, 25, 32, 34–35; Timaeus 11–12, 103–4, 151–52 Plotinus, 4–9, 62, 132–33, 164–65, 169–70 Plutarch, 17, 36–37, 44–50, 58, 167–68; De Genio Socratis, 44–50 Poetry and poets, 12, 75–76, 150–51 Porphyry, 6, 9, 165; De Abstinentia, 9; History of Philosophy, 9 Proclus, 10–11, 15, 17, 29–31, 74, 98–99, 163, 173–74; Commentary on the Cratylus , 153, 156; Commentary on the First Alcibiades, 52, 60–72, 98, 109–17, 133– 34; Commentary on the Republic 165; Commentary on the Timaeus, 153 Prophecy. See Divination Protreptic, 13, 144–45, 156–60 Providence, 64–65 Purification, 27, 66–67, 70, 77–78, 119 Pythagoreanism, 11, 43–44, 48–49, 107, 153 Question and answer, 120–22. See also Dialogue ; Elenchus; etc. Rangos, Spiridon, 8–9...