| The Golden Chain: Studies in the Development of Platonism and Christianity Contributor(s): Dillon, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0860782867 ISBN-13: 9780860782865 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $217.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - History |
| Dewey: 184 |
| LCCN: 90028071 |
| Series: Variorum Collected Studies |
| Physical Information: 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume gathers together a series of widely -scattered articles concerned with the great tradition of Platonic scholarship " The Golden Chain" from the time of Plato himself up into the period of Middle Platonism. The main emphasis, however, is on the first three centuries AD. The first articles address the question of what exactly was the nature of the Platonic school at various stages of its development and what kind of organization the Academy may have had. The following ones present studies on figures from Speusippus in the Old Academy, through Philo of Alexandria and Origen (more honorary members of the Golden Chain), to Plotinus, Iamblichus and Proclus, and on some more general issues, such as the fall of the soul, which span much of the period. Dans ce volume sont rassembles des articles jusque"la tr s dispers s et qui traitent de la grande tradition du savoir platonicien " la "Cha (R)ne d'Or"" Sur une p riode allant de Platon au Moyen"Platonisme et l'av nement de la pens e chr tienne. Cependant, l'accent est surtout mis sur les trois premi res si cles ap. J.C. Les premi res articles s'attachent la nature exacte de l'Ecole platonicienne diff rents stades de son volution et aussi a l'organisation adopt e par "l'Acad mie". Les tudes suivantes examinent diff rents personnages, de Speusippe, qui appartenait l'Ancienne Acad mie, en passant par Philon d'Aleandrie et Origi ne (membres semi"honoraires de la Cha (R)ne d'Or), jusqu' Plotin, Iamblique et Procle; y sont aussi trait es des questions d'ordre plus g n ral, telles la chute de l' me, qui furent embrass es durant la majeure partie de cette p riode. |