Notes on Contributors
Crystal Addey
Dr Crystal Addey is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism (Ashgate Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity, 2014) and has also published numerous papers on oracles, divination, ritual and religion in Neoplatonism and Late Antiquity, the reception of Plato and Socrates in Late Antiquity, and on gender and ancient philosophy. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, a Research Fellow of the Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa (Gaetano Massa Research Forum for Advanced Study of the Humanities) and an associate member of the Centre of Late Antique Religion and Culture, Cardiff University.
Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Sara Ahbel-Rappe is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is author of several books on Neoplatonism and on the Socratic tradition and is the recipient of fellowships from the Mellon foundation, acls, and Princetonâs ias. She is currently at work on a book on the reception of Platoâs Phaedrus as well as a studentâs edition of Marcus Aureliusâ Meditations.
Francesca Alesse
Francesca Alesse is Senior Researcher at Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee-cnr (Italy) She published a new collection of the testimonies of Panaetius of Rhodes (1997) and a monograph on the relationship between Stoa and the Socratic schools La Stoa e la tradizione socratica (2000). She also edited two collections of studies respectively on Philo of Alexandria (2008) and in cooperation with Franco Ferrari, on the reception of pseudo-Platonic Epinomis (2012).
Polymnia Athanassiadi
Polymnia Athanassiadi is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Athens. Her latest publications comprise âVers la pensée unique: la montée de lâintolérance dans lâAntiquité tardiveâ (2010) and âMutations of Hellenism in Late Antiquityâ (2015).
Dirk Baltzly
Dirk Baltzly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania and Adjunct Research Professor at Monash University. He is the author of three volumes of translation and notes on Proclusâ Timaeus Commentary (2007â13) as well as numerous chapters and articles on ancient philosophy and contemporary virtue ethics. His current research projects include Proclusâ Republic Commentary (Cambridge) and Hermiasâ Phaedrus Commentary (Bristol). He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities in both Philosophy and Classics.
Mauro Bonazzi
Mauro Bonazzi teaches History of Ancient Philosophy at Milan State University. His major recent publications include Il platonismo (2015), A la recherché des Idées. Platonisme et philosophie hellénistique (2015), Plotino sulla felicità (2016), Atena la città inquieta (2017).
Michael Chase
Michael Chase is a Researcher (Chargé de Recherche) at the National Center of Scientific Research (cnrs) in Paris, France, where he works on Neoplatonism and Islamic philosophy. In addition to articles on Greek, Patristic, Islamic and Medieval Latin philosophy, he has translated Simpliciusâ On Aristotleâs Categories 1â4 (2003) and with Istaván Bodnár and Michael Share Simpliciusâ On Aristotle Physics 8.1â5. (2012).
Dennis Clark
Dennis C. Clark is an independent scholar employed in the it industry in Seattle, Washington. He has worked for a number of Fortune 50 companies over his career of many years now, but received a ba in Classics and German at Rice University in 1976, and an ma in Classics at the University of Texas at Austin in 1980.
John Finamore
John F. Finamore is the Erling B. âJackâ Holtsmark Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on various aspects of late antiquity and is author of Iamblichus and the Theory of the Vehicle of the Soul (1985) and coauthor with J. M. Dillon of Iamblichusâ De Anima: Text, Translation, and Commentary (2002). He is also coeditor with E. Afonasin and J. M. Dillon of Iamblichus and the Foundation of Late Platonism (2012), coeditor with Sarah Klitenic Wear of Defining Platonism: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of John M. Dillon (2017), and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of the Platonic Tradition.
Ryan C. Fowler
Ryan C. Fowler teaches in the Classics Department at Franklin & Marshall College. He lives in Lancaster, pa with Amy and Milo. Recent publications include Imperial Plato: Albinus, Maximus, Apuleius (2016) and an edited volume Plato in the Third Sophistic (2014).
Gary Gabor
Gary Gabor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University. He received his PhD from Fordham University and his main area of research is late antique Neoplatonism, especially the Greek Alexandrian school and the Latin Christian philosopher Boethius.
Lloyd Gerson
Lloyd P. Gerson is Professor of Philosophy in the University of Toronto. He is the author of many books and articles on ancient philosophy including most recently From Plato to Platonism (2013), Ancient Epistemology (2009), and Aristotle and Other Platonists (2005). He is also the editor of the Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity (2010) and the forthcoming complete translations of The Enneads of Plotinus for Cambridge University Press.
Michael Griffin
Michael Griffin (D.Phil. Oxford) is Associate Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He is joint editor of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series (Bloomsbury), author of Aristotleâs Categories in the Early Roman Empire (oup, 2015), and translator of Olympiodorus on Plato First Alcibiades 1â9 (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Olympiodorus on Plato First Alcibiades 10â28 (Bloomsbury, 2016).
Christina Hoenig
Christina Hoenig is an Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Pittsburgh. Her main area of research is the Latin Platonic tradition. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Platoâs Timaeus in the Latin Tradition with Cambridge University Press.
Phillip Sidney Horky
Phillip Sidney Horky is Associate Professor of Classics at Durham University. He is a specialist in ancient philosophy, with interests in metaphysics, cosmology, and political philosophy. He has published Plato and Pythagoreanism (2013) and edited a wide-ranging collection of essays, Cosmos in the Ancient World (forthcoming). In addition to his continued work on the histories of Platonism and Pythagoreanism, he is writing his second monograph, on category theory and speculation in Greek philosophy prior to Aristotle.
Danielle A. Layne
Danielle A. Layne is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University. She is the co-editor of both The Neoplatonic Socrates with Harold Tarrant and Proclus and his Legacy with David Butorac. She has published numerous essays on Plato and the reception of Socrates in late antiquity as well as work on Neoplatonic theories of prayer.
Carl S. OâBrien
Carl Séan OâBrien is Fritz Thyssen Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, where he was previously Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. He was educated at Belvedere College S.J., Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he was a Swiss Confederation Scholar. Publications include The Demiurge in Ancient Thought. Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators (2015), and a co-edited volume, Seele und Materie im Neuplatonismus/Soul and Matter in Neoplatonism (2016).
Dominic J. OâMeara
Dominic OâMeara is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He has published widely on the history of Platonism, in particular books on Plotinus (1993), Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity (1989), Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity (2003) and Cosmology and Politics in Platoâs Later Works (forthcoming).
Jan Opsomer
Jan Opsomer is Professor for Ancient Philosophy and Director of the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy of the ku Leuven, Belgium. Previously he held positions at the University of South Carolina, Columbia sc, and the University of Cologne, Germany. He works on the history of Platonism, more in particular Middle Platonism, late ancient Platonism (Neoplatonism) and the philosophy of the commentators.
Federico M. Petrucci
Federico M. Petrucci was Humboldt Stipendiat at the Universitãt Würzburg (2013â2015) and research fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore (2015â2017), and is now Junior Research Fellow at the University of Durham. He is particularly interested in Plato and the Platonist tradition. He published a translation and commentary of Theonâs Expositio (2012), several papers on Middle Platonism (especially on Plutarch, Taurus, and Atticus) in international journals; a monograph on Taurus of Beirut is forthcoming for Routledge.
Ilaria Ramelli
Ilaria Ramelli, FRHistS, is Full Professor of Theology and Britt endowed Chair (Graduate School, shms, âAngelicumâ University) and Senior Research Fellow (Princeton; ceu Institute for Advanced Study). She has been Professor of Roman History, Senior Research Fellow in Ancient Philosophy (Durham; Oxford; Catholic University, 2003âpresent), in Religion (Erfurt), Senior Visiting Professor of Greek Thought (Harvard; bu), of Church History, and director of international research projects.
Julius Rocca
Julius Rocca is a graduate in medicine and philosophy from Sydney University. He has worked chiefly in ancient medicine since his doctorate and has held Wellcome Trust Awards in the uk and a Center for Hellenic studies Fellowship in Washington dc. He is a Visiting Scholar, Institute for Classical Philology, Humboldt University, Berlin, and is currently preparing a commentary to Galenâs De usu partium.
Geert Roskam
Geert Roskam received his Ph.D. in classics at the University of Leuven and is Associate Professor on the Leuven Faculty of Arts. He is the author of many articles on later Platonism and on Hellenistic philosophy and of several monographs on Stoicism (2005), Epicureanism (2007), and Plutarch (2007 and 2009).
François Renaud
François Renaud is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Moncton (Canada). He has published mostly on Plato, Platonic interpretation both in Antiquity and in modern times, and Platoâs Socratic legacy. His major publications include Hermeneutic Philosophy and Plato: Gadamerâs Response to the Philebus (2010) co-edited with Christopher Gill and The Platonic Alcibiades i: The Dialogue and its Ancient Reception co-authored with Harold Tarrant.
Charles E. Snyder
Charles E. Snyder is a Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Jewish Scepticism. Recent publications range from work on classical academic skepticism to contemporary psychoanalytic approaches to Plato.
Harold Tarrant
Harold Tarrant is Professor Emeritus (Classics) at the School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle Australia, and also holds an honorary position at the University of Sydney. Now living in the uk, he continues to publish widely on ancient Platonism.
John D. Turner
John D. Turner, Cotner Professor of Religious Studies and Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, specializes in the study of ancient Gnosticism, in particular the restoration, conservation, translation, and interpretation of the thirteen fourth century papyrus codices from Nag Hammadi, Egypt. He is author of Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, and a contributor to the English- and French-language critical editions of seven of the Nag Hammadi texts and to the forthcoming Budé edition of Plotinusâ Enneads.
Gerd Van Riel
Gerd Van Riel is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, ku Leuven (Belgium). His main research areas are Plato and the Platonic tradition, esp. later Neoplatonism (Proclus, Damascius), and saint Augustine. He is presently preparing a new critical edition of the Greek text of Proclusâ Commentary on Platoâs Timaeus. His publications include Platoâs Gods (2013); Pleasure and the Good Life: Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists (2000); and the Greek-French annotated edition of Damascius, Commentary on the Philebus (2008). He is the editor of Augustiniana. A Journal for the Research on Augustine and Augustinianism.
Sarah Klitenic Wear
Sarah Klitenic Wear is Professor of Classics at Franciscan University of Steubenville. She is the author of Plotinus on Beauty and Reality: A Greek Student Reader for Enneads I.6 and V.1 (2017), The Teachings of Syrianus on Platoâs Timaeus and Parmenides (2011), and, with John M. Dillon, Despoiling the Hellenes: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition (2007), as well as articles on Neoplatonism.
Sami Yli-Karjanmaa
Sami Yli-Karjanmaa received his ThD from à bo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, in 2013. His dissertation dealt with Philo of Alexandriaâs position on the doctrine of reincarnation. He has subsequently pursued research on Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity in both the à au and the University of Helsinki, where he is presently an Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher.