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Author:   Jana Schultz ,  James Wilberding
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   30
Weight:   0.008kg
ISBN:  

9789004510463

ISBN 10:   900451046
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   11 August 2022
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Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Jana Schultz and James Wilberding Part 1 The Historical Presence of Women in Neoplatonic Schools 1 Diotima, Sosipatra and Hypatia: Methodological Reflections on the Study of Female Philosophers in the Platonic Tradition  Crystal Addey Part 2 The Status of Women in Neoplatonic Socio-political Theory 2 Women in Plotinus  James Wilberding 3 Marcella and Porphyry  Luc Brisson 4 On the Equality of Women and Men in Late Antique Platonism: Proclus, Julian and Philip the Philosopher  Dominic O’Meara 5 Theodorus of Asine on the Equality of the Sexes: Traces of a Rhetorical Trope in the Fourth Century CE  John Dillon 6 The Myth of Er and Female Guardians in Proclus’ Republic Commentary  Dirk Baltzly 7 Damascius on the Virtue of Women and Their Relation to Men  Jana Schultz Part 3 Female Principles in Neoplatonic Metaphysics and Science 8 Femininity in Porphyry’s On Abstinence  Miira Tuominen 9 A Match Made in Heaven: The Metaphysics of Aphrodite in Neoplatonic Thinkers  Marije Martijn 10 Neoplatonic Motives in Emperor Julian’s Hymn to the Mother of the Gods  Christoph Helmig 11 Otherwise Than the Father: Night and the Maternal Causes in Proclus’ Theological Metaphysics  Danielle Layne Part 4 A Concluding Look at Two Christian Neoplatonists 12 Macrina’s Method: Reason and Reasoning in Gregory of Nyssa’s On Soul and Resurrection  Peter Adamson 13 What Did Michael Psellos Say about Women in the 11th Century AD?  Denis Walter Index Locorum Index of Names and Subjects

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Jana Schultz, Ph.D. (2016), Ruhr-University Bochum, held a position as a researcher at the Ruhr-University in Bochum from 2016 until 2018, and at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 2018 until 2021. She published Formung und Umwendung der Seele. Eine Rechtfertigung ambivalenter Darstellungen in der Literatur im Rahmen von Platons Politeia (Lang 2017), and articles on Platonism and Neoplatonism. James Wilberding, Ph.D. (2003), University of Chicago, is Professor of Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin. He is author of Plotinus’ Cosmology: A Study of Ennead 2.1 (2006) and Forms, Souls and Embryos: Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction (2017), and editor of World Soul: A History of the Concept (2021).

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