Notes on Contributors
Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. His main area of speciality is the reception of Greek philosophy in the Islamic world, and in this area he has written many articles and three monographs. He has also edited and co-edited numerous books, including volumes for Cambridge University Press, the Warburg Institute, and the Institute of Classical Studies. He is the author of the book series “History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps”, which appears with Oxford University Press.
Crystal Addey is a Lecturer in Classics at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism: Oracles of the gods (Ashgate 2014; reprinted Routledge 2015) and editor of Divination and Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Routledge 2021). She has published extensively on the connections between ancient philosophy, theurgy and Mediterranean religious traditions; ancient philosophical approaches towards the natural world and the environment, and on the roles of women in ancient philosophy, particularly within Platonism and Neoplatonism.
Dirk Baltzly FAHA is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. He is best known for his translations of philosophical texts from late antiquity including volumes 3–5 of Proclus Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus (CUP); Hermias Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus vols 1 and 2 (Bloomsbury); as well as Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Republic (CUP). He was among the editors of the The Brill Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) and has authored over 50 articles and book chapters on ancient philosophy. Baltzly has previously held visiting fellowships at University of London’s Institute for Classical Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. In addition to ancient philosophy, Baltzly enjoys bushwalking, camping and photographing the wild places of Tasmania.
Luc Brisson Director of Research [Emeritus] at the National Center for Scientific Research (Paris [Villejuif], France; Centre Jean Pépin, UMR 8230 CNRS-ENS, PSL), is known for his works on Plato, Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus, including bibliographies, translations, and commentaries. He has also published numerous works on the history of philosophy and religions in Antiquity.
John Dillon Born 15 Sept. 1939, in Madison Wisc., U.S.A. Educated at Oxford (B.A., M.A.), and University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., The Fragments of Iamblichus’ Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato). On faculty of Dept. of Classics, UC Berkeley, 1969–1980 (Chair of Dept. 1977–1980); Regius Professor of Greek, Trinity College, Dublin, 1980–2006. Main focus of research: Plato and the Platonic Tradition. Chief works: The Middle Platonists, 1977 (2nd ed. 1996); Alcinous: The Handbook of Platonism (1993); Iamblichus, De Anima (with John Finamore, 2000); The Heirs of Plato (2003); The Roots of Platonism (2018); Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham (with Ellen Birnbaum, 2021), and three volumes of collected essays.
Christoph Helmig is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cologne. His research focuses on ancient epistemology (especially concept formation) and on ancient theories of space. He is the author of Forms and Concepts. Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition (De Gruyter 2012), and of numerous articles and chapters on ancient philosophy. He is also co-editor of Space in Hellenistic Philosophy: Critical Studies in Ancient Physics (De Gruyter 2014).
Danielle A. Layne is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. She is an expert on Plato and the Platonic tradition and has edited five volumes including Otherwise than the Binary: New Feminist Readings of Ancient Greek Philosophy and Culture (New York, SUNY Press) with Jessica Decker and Monica Vilhauer as well as The Brill Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (Leiden, Brill: 2018) with Harold Tarrant, François Renaud and Dirk Baltzly. Her current work focuses on feminist interpretations of Platonic philosophy, particularly the concept of the erotic both in antiquity but also contemporary intersectional feminisms.
Marije Martijn is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the VU Amsterdam. She is the author of Proclus on Nature (Brill, 2010), co-editor of All from One, an introduction to Proclus’ thought (OUP 2016), and of various articles on Neoplatonic philosophy of nature, methodology, and philosophy of mathematics and logic. She is currently working on projects to increase the diversity in the philosophical curriculum, and on projects in computational history of philosophy.
Dominic J. O’Meara studied at Cambridge University and in Paris, where his doctoral thesis was directed by Pierre Hadot. He is Professor emeritus of philosophy at the Université de Fribourg (Switzerland). Among his books are: Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 1989); Plotinus: an Introduction to the Enneads (Oxford University Press, 1993); Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2003); Cosmology and Politics in Plato’s Later Works (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Jana Schultz held a position as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFG project Women and the Female in Neoplatonism from October 2016 till July 2021. The project was placed first at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, and since 2018 at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. Jana Schultz’s research focused on Plato and the Neoplatonic tradition, especially on Platonic and Neoplatonic metaphysics, psychology, ethics and aesthetics. She is the author of Formung und Umwendung der Seele. Eine Rechtfertigung ambivalenter Darstellungen in der Literatur im Rahmen von Platons Politeia (Lang 2017) and co-editor of Plato’s Non-Rational Soul (Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 20) (mentis 2017).
Miira Tuominen (PhD University of Helsinki 2002) is university lecturer at University of Stockholm. She has held teaching positions at the universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä and worked in numerous international research projects. Many of her publications concern questions related to the nature of knowledge, cognition, arguments and understanding in ancient philosophy. More recently, she has been working, for instance, on the relationship of soul and body in late ancient commentaries on Aristotle and most importantly on Porphyry’s On Abstinence from Killing Animals.
Denis Walter is lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy of the University of Bonn. His research interests lie in ancient philosophy, especially Plato, and in the medieval philosophy of the Byzantine tradition, especially Michael Psellos. Among the latest publications: Horn, Taormina, Walter (eds.): Körperlichkeit in der Philosophie der Spätantike—Corporeità nella filosofia tardoantica. Baden-Baden 2020.
James Wilberding is Professor of Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy at Humboldt University. 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).