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Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage. Volume 1 PLATO’S PARMENIDES AND ITS HERITAGE VOLUME 1 PLATO’S PARMENIDES AND its heritage VOLUME 1: History and Interpretation from the Old Academy to Later Platonism and Gnosticism Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series Edited by John T. Fitzgerald Series Editor John D. Turner and Kevin Corrigan Number 2 Society of Biblical Literature PLATO’S PARMENIDES AND ITS HERITAGE, VOLUME 1 Atlanta PLATO’S PARMENIDES AND its heritage VOLUME 1: History and Interpretation from the Old Academy to Later Platonism and Gnosticism Edited by John D. Turner and Kevin Corrigan Society of Biblical Literature Atlanta Contents Abbreviations vii Introduction 1 Section 1: Plato, from the Old Academy to Middle Platonism 1. The Place of the Parmenides in Plato’s Thought and in the Subsequent Tradition 23 Kevin Corrigan 2. Speusippus’s Neutral Conception of the One and Plato’s Parmenides 37 Gerald Bechtle 3. The Fragment of Speusippus in Column I of the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides 59 Luc Brisson 4. Speusippus and the Ontological Interpretation of the Parmenides 67 John Dillon 5. The Indefinite Dyad in Sextus Empiricus’s Report (Adversus Mathathematicos 10.248–283) and Plato’s Parmenides 79 Thomas Szlezák 6. Plato and Parmenides in Agreement: Ammonius’s Praise of God as One-Being in Plutarch’s The E At Delphi 93 Zlatko Pleše 7. Moderatus, E. R. Dodds, and the Development of Neoplatonist Emanation 115 J. Noel Hubler Section 2: Middle Platonic and Gnostic Texts 8. The Platonizing Sethian Treatises, Marius Victorinus’s Philosophical Sources, and Pre-Plotinian Parmenides Commentaries 131 John D. Turner -v- vi PLATO’S PARMENIDES, VOLUME 1 9. Is There a Gnostic “Henological” Speculation? 173 Johanna Brankaer 10. The Greek Text behind the Parallel Sections in Zostrianos and Marius Victorinus 195 Volker Henning Drecoll 11. TheChaldaean Oracles and the Metaphysics of the Sethian Platonizing Treatises 213 John D. Turner 12. A Criticism of the Chaldaean Oracles and of the Gnostics in Columns IX and X of the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides 233 Luc Brisson 13. The Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides and Aristotle’s Categories: Some Preliminary Remarks 243 Gerald Bechtle 14. Negative Theology and Radical Conceptual Purification in the Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides 257 Alain Lernould 15. A Criticism of Numenius in the Last Columns (XI–XIV) of the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides 275 Luc Brisson References 283 Contributors 297 Subject–Name Index 301 Index Locorum 315 Abbreviations General ca. circa cf. compare conj. conjecture e.g. for example i.e. in other words frg. fragment Ps. Pseudo- rev. ed. revised edition sc. that is to say test. Testimonium TPO Triple-Powered One Primary Sources Aetius Plac. reliq. De placitis reliquiae Alcinous Intr. Introductio in Platonem Didask. 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