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