The Neoplatonic Socrates

Contents

coNTeNTS introduction 1 Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant chapter 1. Socratic love in Neoplatonism 21 Geert Roskam chapter 2. plutarch and apuleius on Socrates’ daimonion 36 John F. Finamore chapter 3. The daimonion of Socrates: daimones and divination in Neoplatonism 51 Crystal Addey chapter 4. Socrates in the Neoplatonic psychology of hermias 73 Christina-Panagiota Manolea chapter 5. The character of Socrates and the Good of dialogue form: Neoplatonic hermeneutics 80 Danielle A. Layne chapter 6. hypostasizing Socrates 97 Michael Griffin chapter 7. Socratic character: proclus on the function of erotic intellect 109 James M. Ambury chapter 8. The elenctic Strategies of Socrates: The Alcibiades I and the commentary of olympiodorus 118 François Renaud vi contents chapter 9. Akrasia and Enkrateia in Simplicius’s commentary on epictetus’s Encheiridion 127 Marilynn Lawrence chapter 10. The Many-voiced Socrates: Neoplatonist Sensitivity to Socrates’ change of register 143 Harold Tarrant conclusion 163 Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant appendix: The reception of Socrates in late antiquity: authors, Texts, and Notable references 167 Notes 179 bibliography 229 list of contributors 245 index 249 acknowledgments 255 ...