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List of papers for the 2020 conference in Athens by panel

The Divine and the Natural World: Animals, Place, Time, and the Environment in the Platonic Tradition Crystal Addey , Marilynn Lawrence , and Rob Berchman Jonathan Young , University of Iowa, “Empedocles in the Company of Orpheus, , and : the Births, Lives, and Destinies of Divine, Human, Animal, and Plant Souls.” Brittny Del Bel , Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Consistency Amidst Controversy: Exploring the Nature of Plato's Animals through the Lens of the Tripartite Soul” Claudia Zatta , American College of Greece, “From Animals’ Intelligence to ’s Innocence: in de Abstinentia 3” Jenny Messenger , University of St Andrews, “New Narratives: Plotinian Landscapes in the Poetry of Kathleen Raine”

Marilynn Lawrence , Independent Researcher, “Attuning to Hestia and Demeter: Practicing in the Face of Ecological Disaster” Crystal Addey , University College Cork, “On the Ecocentric nature of Theurgy and Divination in the Platonic Tradition: Relational Philosophy and the Environmental Crisis” Akindynos Kaniamos , École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris), “Theurgic Eros and Astral in ’ In Timaeum” Julio Cesar Moreira , Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, “The daemonic role in the Information of Matter”

Proclus and Causes: problems in epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics Sara Ahbel-Rappe Francois Lortie , Independent Scholar, Bureau of Canada, "The Encosmic Intellect. The Nature of Dionysus in Proclus' ." Andrew Mayo , University of Michigan, “The TMA in Proclus' Commentary on the ” Saskia Aerts , De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and , “Proclus on the Cognitive Self-motion of the Soul: A Reply to ” Tomasz Tiuryn , University of Warsaw, “Boethius and the Neoplatonic conception of universals” Pablo Rodriguez , Complutense University of Madrid, “Proclus' VI Hymn: a review of the hypostases of Hecate”

Neoplatonism in the late : from Eckhart to Cusanus Oscar Federico Bauchwitz and Claudia D’Amico Clelia Attanasio , University of Cambridge. “The Dionysian Role of Joseph and Benjamin in Richard’s Benjamin Major: Super-Theology and Negative Theology as Human Apex of God’s Understanding” Alessandra Beccarisi , Università de Salento, “Neoplatonic sources of ” Oscar Federico Bauchwitz , Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, “The topology of Abgeschiedenheit: the neoplatonism of Meister Eckhart” Christian Jung, , Universität Wien, “Meister Eckhart’s Henology of Spirit” Claudia D’Amico , Universidad de Buenos Aires, “Proclus and Cusanus’ Metaphysics of Possibility”

Neoplatonic Procession and the East: Towards a Comparative Analytics Khashayar Beigi Khashayar Beigi , Loyola Marymount University, "Mani and Procession as Religion" Dmitry Biriukov , National Research University Higher School of Economics, "Hierarchies of divine energies and created in the Palamite literature: Gregory Palamas and David Disypatos" Łukasz Piątak , Adam Mickiewicz University, "Hurakhsh vs. Helios: The image of sun as compared between the prayers of Al-Suhrawardi and the Proclus' Hymns"

Prophecy, Divination, and Foreknowledge in Neoplatonism: the God(esse)s of Providence Dylan Burns and Danielle Layne Dylan Burns , “ of Alexandria on the Oracle to Laius” Duarte João Venâncio Dos Anjos , Visions in Proclus and its relation to the threefold division of poetry” Andreea-Maria Lemnaru-Carrez , “Into the cloven meads of Aphrodite. Empedocles' reception of φιλία as the cosmic force of unification in ' De Mysteriis.” Andrei Man , “Sextus Empiricus and Proclus on the divinatory sign” Christopher Sauder , “Stoic notions of λόγος in ’ treatises on Providence” Pablo Rodríguez Valdés , “Proclus’ Sixth Hymn: a review of the hypostases of Hecate”

Neo-Platonic and Gnostic exegeses of late-antique divine revelations: Corpus Hermeticum, , Gnostic revealed texts George-Florin Calian and Nicola Spanu Helmut Seng , Goethe-Universität am Main, “Δύναμις in den Chaldaeischen Orakeln und der neuplatonischen Exegese” Nicola Spanu , Lucian Blaga University, “The divine Father of the Chaldean Oracles in light of Proclus’ and ’ oracular exegesis” Dimka Gicheva-Gocheva , University of Sofia, “Philosophical concepts and pseudo-revelations – stirred or shaken in the Stobaei ?” Gabriel Andrés , University of Gothenburg, “Are the gnostic beliefs for non-Christian?” Robert Heller , King's College London, “Hekate in Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles” Florin George Calian , Lucian Blaga University, “Divine Revelation and Neoplatonism” Ida Soldini, , Scuola dottorale in Scienze Religiose, Lugano, Svizzera, “Platone fu prima autore comico e poi filosofo?”

Plotinus’ Metaphysics Damian Caluori and D.M.Hutchinson Damian Caluori, , University of Edinburgh, “Plotinus on qualia and qualities in Enn. VI.1.10-12” D. M. Hutchinson , St. Olaf College, “Plotinus on the Composition of Sensibles” Anna Zhyrkova , Jesuit University in Krakow, “The Nature of Relation between Genera of Being and Genera of Becoming” Thomas Vidart,, “The Stoic Genera and the Principles of the Intelligible according to Plotinus” Michèle Anik Stanbury , Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität Bonn, “Plotinus on the Intellect as dúnamis in VI.2.20” Pauline Sabrier , “Plotinus' Enn. VI.2 [43]: The Search for the Ultimate Constituents of the Intelligible Realm” Ina Schall , University of , “Ideas of Individuals or Individual Ideas? Resolving Confusions” László Bene , Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, “Plotinus’ account of time in the treatise On the Genera of Being VI.1–3 [42–44]”

Malena Tonelli , UBA-UNLP, “Unity and multiplicity of the second hypostasis of Plotinus. The genres of being asconstitutive of Noûs.” Svetla Slaveva-Griffin , Florida University, “Plotinus on Soul and Number” Alberto Kobec , De Wulf Mansion Center, Leuven, “'Neither Body nor Bodiless': A Plotinian Argument Against the Existence of a Single Genus of Substances and its Aristotelian Origin” Andrew Payne , St Joseph’s University, “Abstract for “Elements of Intellect: Plotinus’ Use of ‘Stoicheion’ in Ennead VI.2” Michael Lessman , Yale University, "The Role of Extension in Plotinus’ anti-Peripatetic Account of Eternity and Time" Riccardo Chiaradonna , Roma Tre, “Plotinus and Aristotle’s Categories: the distinction of primary and secondary substances.”

Neoplatonic Aesthetics Jean-Michel Charrue Anne Sheppard , Royal Holloway, University of London, “Neoplatonic views on Choral dancing” Lela Alexidze , University of Tbilisi, “Actors, author, spectators as a play on the Stage in Plotinus” Achilleas A. Stamatiadis , Villanova University, “Allegorical and aesthetic appraisals of an ancient goddess: the case in point of Lucretius’ ‘invocation to Venus’ in De Rerum Natura’s proem” Jean-Michel Charrue , retraité , (ex) académie de Versailles, “Saint- Augustin: l'amour du beau, à propos des Confessions, l'amour des beautés de l'âme”

Michele Abbate , University of Salerne, “The very nature of neoplatonic thought about beauty as a ‘meta-aesthetics’” Panos Eliopoulos , University of Ioannina, “Plotinus and the Stoïcs: the Aesthetics as a precondition for moral decision making” Sylvana Chrysakopoulou , University of Ioannina, “How to achieve beauty: the spiritual exercise suggested by Plotinus in I, 6” Tomas N. Castro , University of Lisbon, “The aesthetics experience in the metaphysics of pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite”

Marsilio Ficino as a Commentator Anna Corrias and Stephen Gersh Anna Corrias, [email protected], University of Cambridge and University of Toronto, “ as an Interpreter of the Doctrine of Transmigration” Stephen Gersh, [email protected], University of Notre Dame, “Ficino's Citations of Pletho” Ilya Guryanov, [email protected], National Research University “’Higher School of Economics’ and Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, Naturalizing moral concepts: Ficino’s magnanimitas” Denis J.-J. Robichaud, [email protected], University of Notre Dame, “Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Emperor ’s Hymn to King Helios” Rocco Di Dio, [email protected], University of Munich and the University of Innsbruck, “Dr., Ficino, the Amicus Lucis: A Set of Preparatory Notes for the De amore” Iskander Israel Rocha Parker, [email protected], Central European University, “Marsilio Ficino’s Prefaces more than Presentation Cards or Summaries” Valery Rees, valery. [email protected], School of Philosophy and Economic Science, “Ficino’s commentaries for a wider public: De sole” Jacopo Roveratto, [email protected], Università degli Studi di Padova, “Divination as non-textual search instrument in Ficino” Valerio Sanzotta, [email protected], The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo- Studies, “Marsilio Ficino as a Reader of Augustine” Matteo Stefani, [email protected], Università degli Studi di Torino, “Marsilio Ficino lettore di Aristotele e Tommaso d’Aquino: il commento all’Etica nel codice Riccardiano 135”

A Text Worthy of Plotinus Kevin Corrigan and Suzanne Stern-Gillet José C. Baracat Jr.< [email protected]>, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil "Jesús Igal on a locus desperatus of (VI. 5 [23] 8. 22-33)" Kevin Corrigan ,, Emory University, “Paul Henry: God as personal in the Enneads.” Gary Gurtler S.J. Boston College, “Jesús Igal, SJ: Editor and Translator Extraordinaire” Marcin Podbielski , Jesuit University Ignatianum, “Revisiting the Text, , and of Plotinus’s On Contemplation” Suzanne Stern-Gillet , University of Manchester and University of Bolton, “Paul Henry SJ as codicologist and interpreter of the Enneads” Emanuel Zingg , Sorbonne, Paris, “A Methodological Look at Henry–Schwyzer’s Editions of Plotinus: the missing stemma”

Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Rivals, alliances, or merely a continuum? Vladimir Cvetkovic and Panagiotis G. Pavlos George Anagnostopoulos , Democritus University of Thrace, “Monas and Trias: Dialectics and ” Eva Anagnostou – Laoutides , Macquarie University, “Drunk On New Wine (Acts 2:13): Drinking Wine from Plato to the Eucharist Tradition of Early Christian Thinkers” Emma Brown Dewhurst , Ludwig Maximilian University, “How Can We Be Free?: The Jeopardy of Free Will When Being is Tied to Goodness in Byzantine Philosophy” Vassilios Constantoudis , and Stathis Komnenos , NCSR Demokritos, “Apophaticism, Hierachy, Icon: Platonic and Christian Insights in Dialogue with Modern Science”” Vladimir Cvetkovic , University of Belgrade, “Hierarchy as a Neoplatonic Cuckoo in the Nest of Christian Ecclesiology: The cases of Dionysius the Areopagite and ” Alexandar Djakovac, , University of Belgrade, “Ontology of Fall and Paradise: ἅμα τω γενέσθαι in the teaching of St. Maximus of the Confessor” John Dillon, , College Dublin, “The Neoplatonic Noetic Triad and the Origins of the Christian Trinity” Nevena Dimitrova , Bulgarian of Sciences, “Maximus the Confessor and the Understanding of Logoi” Juan José Fuentes , Universidad de Chile, “Hellénisme et christianisme: Pseudo-Denys et sa réception de la doctrine néoplatonicienne des Intelligibles “ Demetrios Harper , Holy Trinity Seminary, “Mapping Subjectivity and Self- perception in Late Antiquity: The Epistemology of the Self in Maximos the Confessor and Plotinus” Douglas Hedley , Cambridge University, “The Philosophical Idealism of the ” Ivanovic, Filip , University of Donja Gorica and Center of Hellenic Studies,”Body and Soul in Dionysius the Areopagite” Andrej Jeftic , University of Belgrade, “’The Truth That Speaks Through Them:’ Authority of the Holy Fathers in St Maximus’ Ambigua” Isidoros Katsos , Cambridge University and Hebrew University, “Origen Against Plato Re-visited: How Antiplatonist Was Really Origen’s ‘Antiplatonism’?” Gabriela Joanna Legutko, , Jagiellonian University, “Christianisation of in the thought of Desiderius ” Nikolaos Loudovikos , University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki, “Nemesius of Emesa, Niketas Stethatos, and Leontius of Byzantium: Biblical or Aristotelian overcoming of Platonism?” Sebastian Mateiescu , Leiden University, “The Metaphysics of the . Neoplatonic and Byzantine Approaches” Vukasin Milisevic , University of Belgrade, “Plotinus, Neoplatonists and Maximus the Confessor’s Concept of ἀεικίνητος στάσις” Sotiris Mitralexis , University of Athens, and University of Winchester, “Revisiting Terminological Challenges in Maximos the Confessor’s Q.Thal. 59” George Pavlos , Democritus University of Thrace, “Methodology, Continuity and Deadlocks in Greek philosophical thinking and tradition” Panagiotis Pavlos , University of Oslo, Platonism and Christian Thought: A System in Phase Transition; An Approach to the Contributions of Vassilios Tatakis and fr. John Romanides” István Perczel , CEU, “The Letters of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and the Hypotheses of Pato's Parmenides: Ronald Hathaway's Hypothesis Revisited” Tamara Plecas , University of Belgrade, “On what is up to us (ἐφ᾽ ἡμῖν) from the perspective of Epictetus, Proclus, Simplicius and Saint Maximus the Confessor” Alexander Carson Shaw , Boston University, “St. Maximus’ Christological transformation of Platonic cosmic analogy “ George Siskos , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, “Plato’s natural necessity as philosophical basis in Christian from 4th to 7th century A. D.” Dionysios Skliris , National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “The notion of the ‘parhypostasis’: A comparison between Proclus (412-485) and Saint Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662)” Thomas Slabon, , Stanford University, “Plato’s Divine Authority and its Christian Motivations” Brenton Smith , Fordham University, “Receptivity and Conversion to the Teachings of the Illuminating Principle in Plato and Augustine” Anastasia Theologou , CEU, “Plotinus and the Cappadocian Fathers on the Unity of Human Nature” Daniel Tolan , Cambridge University, “The Mirror of the Soul, Origen on Νοῦς” Torstein Theodor Tollefsen , University of Oslo, “St. on Matter” Sergey Trostyanskiy , Columbia University, “Iamblichus on the Relationship between Time and Motion” Dimitrios Vasilakis, , Ludwig Maximilian University, “Dionysius’ Christ versus Proclus’ : how to provide (or polemicize) in an unmixed way” Sara Yeager , University of Michigan, “Descent and Fall of the Human Soul in Origen and Plotinus” Ruta Zukiene , Vytautas Magnus University, “The reception of Neoplatonic notions of time and eternity in the Old English ”

The Argumentative Structure and Method of Presentation of Proclus’ Elements of Theology Pieter d’Hoine and Jan Opsomer Thanos Kiosoglou, [email protected], KU Leuven, ‘Inside Proclus’ Lab: The Strategy of Στοιχείωσις Studied in Action’ Miriam Cutino, [email protected], EPHE (Paris)/Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi Scienze della Cultura (Modena), ‘Proclus et l’actualisation de la táxis ontologique dans le procédé de la raison discursive. Les théorèmes 50-52-63 des Éléments de Théologie et I 26- 27 des Éléments de Physique’ Arthur Oosthout, [email protected], KU Leuven, ‘To be Composed of Parts or Not to Be Composed of Parts. On the Argumentative Structure of Proclus’ Elements of Theology, Proposition 180’ Michael Lessman, [email protected], Yale University, ‘The Method of Proclus’ Elements in the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement’ Guillermo Ruz Troncoso, [email protected], KU Leuven, ‘The Methodological Characteristics of the elementationes According to Proclus’

Soul, Intellect, and Afterlife John F. Finamore and Ilaria Ramelli Salman Elamir Amir , University of Michigan, “Nous and Intelligible Matter or Inchoate Intellect in the Religion” Dirk Baltzly , University of Tasmania, “Unity and plurality in the human soul: the case of the Republic’s civic virtues” John F. Finamore , University of Iowa, “Proclus on the Tripartite Soul” Cristian Furness , University of Tasmania, “Allegorising the Soul's Journey: Porphyry's Vita Plotini and De Antro Nympharum” Camille Guigon , University Lyon 3 -Jean Moulin, “The dual role of the in the necessity of the soul’ incorporation in Plotinus’ treatises” L. A. Joosse, , University of Groningen, “The soul and the individual in Olympiodorus of Alexandria” Anna-Christine Lalande-Corbeil , Université de Montréal, “Taking Plato's Myths Seriously: Plotinian Account of Timaeus's ” Thibaut Lejeune , De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, “Living the Good Life: Assimilation to God in Late Neoplatonism – Theory and Practice” Menahem Luz , University of Haifa, “Ghostly Visitations over Socrates' Grave” Benedetto Neola , Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Centre Léon Robin, “Iamblichus and the Salvation of Soul: Actualization of the “One” and the “Intellect” of Human Soul” Joanna Papiernik , Uniwersytet Łódzki, “Works on the Immortal Soul in the 15th Century – the Complicated Relations to Platonism” Ilaria Ramelli , Durham University and Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, “Evagrius Ponticus on the Soul, the Intellect, and the Restoration in the Afterlife” Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro , Universidad de Cartagena, “The Aristotelian Tradition of the Commentary on the De Anima: Anaxagoras’ Case” Lech Trzcionkowski , “Embodied Soul and Philosophical Practice in “Parallel” Lives of Plotinus and Proclus”

Delphic Philosophy Michael Griffin Elsa Simonetti , KU Leuven, "Delphi and the Pythia in Origen’s Contra Celsum” Geoff Bowe , Istanbul Technical University, "The Oracles at Delphi and Didyma – Socrates, Plato and the Denial of Wisdom in the Sage Tradition” Gary Gabor , Independent Scholar / University of Minnesota, Affiliate, “The Delphic Oracle in Herodotus and Diogenes Laertius” Alan Cardew , University of Essex, "Apollo the God of the " Michael Griffin , University of British Columbia, “Divine Individuality and Inspiration: The Pythia and the Neoplatonic Self”

Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll: Means of Ascent in the Platonic Tradition Elizabeth Hill , Lisa Holdsworth , Benedikt Rottenecker Elizabeth Hill , Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Dangerous, Divine, or Dangerously Divine: Exploring the Role of Art in the Soul's Ascent." Esther Hudson, <[email protected]>, The Catholic University of America, "Internal and External Eros: Understanding Plotinian Eros" Zdenek Lenner, , École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE Paris) & École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon), "Providential Eros and reversive Eros in Proclus: to what extent are the means of ascent gifts which descend?" Benedict Rottenecker, , Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Eros and Creation: The Case for the Other"

Neoplatonic thought in a contemporary perspective: metaphysics, morals and the environmental crisis Francis Lacroix and Louis-Étienne Pigeon Beatriz Cecilia Bossi Lopez , Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Which paideia is required to ‘cure’ the world? Notes on Plato’s views” Francis Lacroix , Université Laval, “Plotinus's contemplation and biocentrism” Eugene Afonasin , Novosibirsk State University, “Neoplatonic thought in a contemporary perspective: metaphysics, morals and the environmental crisis” Louis-Étienne Pigeon , Université Laval, “Arne Naëss' Deep Ecology: Phusis, Ethical Knowledge and Responsibility in the Face of the Environmental Crisis.” Martin Lee Mueller , University of Oslo, “Deep Ecology and Telling About Nature”

Theandrites: Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism Frederick Laurtizen and Sarah Klitenic Wear Donna Altimari Adler , Saint Xavier University, “Divine Names, Divine Images, Apostolic Theology and the Neoplatonic Tradition in the thought of ” Aygun Alizade , Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, “The issue of Unity, Mind and Spirit in the philosophy of Plato and Getha” Maria Consiglia Alvino , Università di Napoli, “L’ideologia politica nel De regno di Sinesio tra neoplatonismo e cristianesimo” Fernandez Marco Alviz , National University of Distance Learning, UNED, Madrid, “Χάρισμα and παιδεία in Late Antiquity: From Neoplatonic circles to Christian thought in the 3rd and 4th centuries” Irini Artemi , Hellenic Open University, “The Neo-Platonism in the of Dionysius Areopagite and in paraphrases of this text in Georges Pachymeres” Berenice Cavarra , Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, “Teorie della regalità e tradizione filosofica tardo antica” Enrico Cerroni , Università la Sapienza Roma, “Controversie su Platone in età Paleologa” Nikos Charalabopoulos , University of Patras, “The Gay Corcyrean (Aen. Gaz. Thphr. 18.14-22 Colonna) Or how both to refute and be faithful to Plato too” Maria Chriti (Μαρία Χρίτη) < [email protected]>, University of Thessaloniki, “John Philoponus on the Protoplast soul” de Feo Francesco , Monastero di Grottaferrata, “platonismo e filioque” Eudoxia Delli , Research Centre for Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens, “Pythagoras and in Michael Psellos: From erudition to (Neo)Platonic–Christian synthesis.” Elena Draghici-Vasilescu , Wolfson College, Oxford, “Pseudo- Dionysius, a Statue, and Byzantium” Panagiotis Foukas < [email protected]>, University of Athens, Platonism and the Cappadocian Church Fathers’ philosophers. Matthias Fritz , Freie Universität Berlin, “ proving himself a Christian of Neoplatonism?” Levan Gigineishvili , Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia, “Translation and interpretation of the term “αὐθυπόστατον” by Ioane Petritsi” Jonathan Greig , Austrian Academy of Sciences, “Proclus’ metaphysics from Nicholas of Methone to Gregory Palamas and his interlocutors” David Hernandez de la Fuente , Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “The awakening of the soul: Platonic views on Dionysus and Ariadne in a Christian environment” David Jenkins , Princeton University, “Lines that do lie anywhere: Italikos- Psellos-Xiphilinos” Andras Kraft , Princeton University, “The doctrine of apokatastasis in eleventh-/twelfth-century Byzantium” Delphine Lauritzen, , Sorbonne University Paris, “Proclus’ Hymns in John of Gaza’s Ekphrasis” Frederick Lauritzen , Scuola Grande di San Marco, Venezia, Plotinus the Antipalamite Gabriela Legutko , Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland, “Christianisation of platonism on the example of Erasm’s of Rotterdam thought” Bruce J. MacLennan , University of Tennessee Knoxville, “A 21st century appraisal of Plethon’s Rational Theology”. Smilen Markov , Oxford University, “The Dionysian Traditions in 9th-century Byzantium”. Francesco Monticini , Università Roma 3, “The Sound of God. Sympathetic Attractions in Some Late Antique and Byzantine Neoplatonic Works” Kostas Mpozinis , Thessaloniki University, “Echoes of platonic justice in the preaching of ” Tiziano Ottobrini , Università di Bergamo, “Intorno alle origini neoplatoniche dell'ineffabile di Dionigi ps.-Areopagita: continuità speculativa rispetto al principio indicibile di Damascio” Eirini Papadak , University of Cyprus, “Sulla scia di Platone: tracce del pensiero platonico e neoplatonico nella cultura scritta a Creta durante il Quattrocento” Silvia Petrosyan , Yerevan State University Armenia, “Armenian Neoplatonic Philosophy and Christological Debates” Simona Puca , Università di Napoli, “Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius!”. Telling the Death of Socrates in the middle of the Vith century” Marialuigia Scotton , Sorbonne University Paris, “L’emploi de la doctrine néoplatonicienne de l’union sans confusion dans le débat christologique. Némésius d’Émèse, Grégoire de Nysse et Grégoire de Nazianze contre Apollinaire de Laodicée » Terezis Christos – Petridou Lydia , University of Patras, “The use of the Platonic dialogue Parmenides by George Pachymeres in his Paraphrasis of De divinis nominibus of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite” Denis Walter, , University of Bonn, “Psellos and the Platonic ideas”

Non-Anachronistic Neoplatonic Readings of Plato” D. Gregory MacIsaac Chad Jorgenson , Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, “Assimilation to the World Soul in Plato and Plotinus” Theofilos Kyriakidis , University of Texas at Austin, “Plotinus' Doctrine of the Undescended Soul: An Answer to the Riddle of the Philosopher's Descent in Plato's Republic” D. Gregory MacIsaac , Carleton University, “Plato’s Account of Eleaticism: A New Reading of the Parmenides” Timothy Riggs , University of Jyväskylä, “Education and Integrity: Plato on self-knowledge, self-expression and self-revelation”

The Plato-Homer Question in Antiquity: Philosophers and Scholars Christina-Panagiota Manolea and François Renaud Clyde Miller , Stony Brook University, “If two go together” (Iliad 10.224; Prot. 348D): Pointing Beyond the “Ancient Contest between Philosophy and Poetry” Francesca Pentassuglio , Sapienza University of Rome, “Xenophon and Plato: the Homeric heritage as : The Homeric heritage as a Socratic problem” Michele Corradi , Université d’Aix-Marseille/Università di Pisa, Ὅσιον προτιμᾶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν. Aristotele e la critica di Platone ad Omero Marco Donato , Université d’Aix-Marseille, « Homer in the Platonic Dubia and Spuria”

Carlotta Capuccino , Università di Bologna, “Poetic Enthusiasm: The (Mis)Fortune of a Platonic Image” George Gazi , Durham University, “[Homeric scholia (Aristarchean/Zenodotean tradition), cf. Porphyry]” François Renaud , Université de Moncton, NB, “La voix d’Homère et celle de ses personnages : la critique de la mimêsis (Rép. 393d-394e) et sa réception contrastée” Georgia Tsouni , University of Crete, “Platonic and Homeric authority in ’s philosophical works”

Dino De Sanctis , Università di Pisa, “Exemplum Homeri: ricezione ed esegesi dell’epos nella riflessione politica di Plutarco” Harold Tarrant < [email protected]>, University of Newcastle, NSW, “Odysseus' Stormy Seas, from Ps-Plato to Numenius and Beyond” Matteo Milesi, , University of Michigan, “Porphyry’s literal and noetic allegories” Irini-Fotini Viltanioti , University of Crete, “Porphyry Fr. 382 Smith: Homericum or Platonicum?”

Emilie Kutash , Salem State University, “War in the Iliad: Untruth for Plato, Allegory for Neoplatonists, Truth for Our times (?)” Marc-Antoine Gavray , Université de Liège, “’No good thing is a multitude of lords’ (Iliad II, 204): Aristotle’s theology according to the ancient commentators” Anna Motta , Freie Universität Berlin, “Philosophy and Inspiration in Late-Antique Isagogics: (or, On the Platonic Methods of Teaching the Divine)” Christina-Panagiota Monolea , Hellenic Army Academy, “Craftmanship and Creation: “Homeric” Hephaestus in and Proclus”

Mario Regali , Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, “Omero nell'esegesi antica al racconto su Atlantide: la testimonianza di Proclo nel Commento al Timeo di Platone” Graeme Miles , University of Tasmania, “Allegorical and Non- allegorical Readings of Homer in Proclus” Laura Morangiu , Universität zu Köln, “Plato Ὁμηρικώτατος? A Reconsideration of the Speech of the Muses (Resp. VIII, 545c-547a) in light of Proclus’ Commentary” Oiva Kuisma , University of Helsinki, “Proclus, Homer, and Aesthetics”

Nature and Soul in the Greek Neoplatonic Tradition Melina G. Mouzala and Elias Tempelis Melina G. Mouzala , University of Patras, “Nature and Soul as principles of motion: ” Elias Tempelis, Hellenic Naval Academy, “The School of Ammonius on the acquisition of knowledge of the intelligible world by the human soul” Giouli Korobili , Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin- Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften and Constantinos Stefou , Ionian University of Corfu and Democritus University of Thrace, “Nature, Soul and Individuality in Porphyry’s Embryology” Ricardo Salles , Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, “The Stoic cosmic soul and the theory of seminal principles in late Platonist sources” Celina Bebenek , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, “The Apparent Contradiction in Plato’s Descent of the Soul: Discussion and Resolution in Plotinus’ Ennead IV” Camille Guigon , University Lyon 3 - Jean Moulin, “Le rôle paradoxal de la nature dans la remontée de l’âme individuelle chez Plotin” Meg Giordano , Vrije Universiteit, and Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, “Nature and the morality of self-motion: an account of personal violence via a Proclean enriching of Aristotle’s of activity” Jacqueline Tusi , , “The Unity and Plurality of Soul: Plotinus’ Interpretation of Plato’s Parmenides” José M. Zamora < [email protected]>, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, “Reconsidering the Neoplatonic Reading of Plato’s Timaeus (27d6-28a1)”

Plato’s Reception in Modern (Historiography of) Philosophy (from the 18th century until now) Tomasz Mróz Leo Catana , University of Copenhagen, "The Socratic School in Brucker’s Historia critica philosophiae" Adrian Habura , University of Zielona Góra, "Stanisław Lisiecki (1872– 1960) as a Forgotten Plato Researcher and Platonic Thinker" Jay Bregman , University of Maine, "Reception of the Pythagorean Plato in North America" Andrzej Serafin , Pedagogical University of Cracow, "Heidegger on Plato’s Originary Good: A Phenomenological Reconstruction" Tomasz Mróz , University of Zielona Góra, "World War II and Plato in Stalinist Poland" Marcos G. Breuer , University of West Attica, "Platonism and Neoplatonism in Jorge Luis Borges’ Work" Natalia Danilkina , Baltic Federal University, "From Plato to Dostoevsky: Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Ethics and Arts"

Plotinus and the Gnostics Rasimus, Tuomas J and Svetoslava Slaveva-Griffin Kevin Corrigan , Emory University, “Reflection on the scholarly life of John D. Turner” John D. Turner, University of Nebraska (read by Svetla Slaveva-Griffin), “Platonizing Gnostic Views on Soul and Body” Václav Němec , Charles University in Prague, “Negative Theology in Zostrianos, Marius Victorinus and Plotinus” Tuomas Rasimus , University of Helsinki, Response and Reflection

Blurring the boundaries: Ficino’s Philosophy after Ficino? Valery Rees Maria Vittoria Comacchi , Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo- Latin Studies, Innsbruck, “Reading Marsilio Ficino through Francesco Cattani da Diacceto: Yehudah Abarbanel’s Neoplatonic Concepts of Love and Beauty in Jewish Garb” Jozef Matula , Palacky University, Olomouc, “Leone Ebreo´s the circle of love and the immortality of the soul” Daniel Kaczyński , University of Warsaw, “Theurgy and Witchcraft in Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Prospero as a male witch” Laura Follesa , Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, “The Aether as the Vehicle, the Sun as the Source of Life: Ficinian Tradition in Schelling’s and Herder’s Theories of Light”

The Neoplatonists on method, style and epistemic advancement Pauliina Remes Pauliina Remes , Uppsala University, "Plotinus on Dialectic: Its Scope and Operations". Marije Martijn , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, “Syllogizing Plato” Federico Maria Petrucci , Università degli Studi di Torino, "Why Should We Care about Atlantis? A Test-Case of Neoplatonist Methodological Innovations"

Emotions in Early Modern Platonic Philosophy Natalia Strok and Valentina Zaffino Markus Krienke, , Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano, “Emotions and Happiness in the Protestant : between Neoplatonic Roots and Luther’s Influence on Modern Philosophical Thought” Matthew Leisinger , Cambridge University, “Ralph Cudworth’s Sentimentalism” Natalia Strok , UBA-CONICET-UNLP, “Pain in Conway’s Lovely World” Patricia Marechal , Northwestern University, “Platonic influences in the philosophy of Anne Conway: Pain in the Philebus and the Principles of the Most Ancient and ”

Paula Pico Estrada , Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, “The Epistemic Role of Emotions in Courtly Mystique” Teresa Rodríguez , Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas UNAM, “Philosophy, Music, and Harmony in Ficino’s Thought: A Theory of Divine Inspiration” Valentina Zaffino , Pontifical Lateran University - Rome Global Gateway of the University of Notre Dame, “ on Religious Enthusiasm. Fanaticism, Tolerance, and Atheism in Cambridge Platonists’ Debate” Neşe Aksoy , Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, “Freedom, Joy and the Highest Good in Spinoza’s Ethics”

Miscellaneous Abstracts Marta Antola, , Durham University, “Plato’s Odyssean response to the Plato-Homer Question” Hannah Breece , Fordham University, “Plotinus on the Emotions and Being Affected” Xenia Daskalopoulou , University of Patras, “Proclus’ Divine Providence and Divine Knowledge: a research on Timaeus 30b6-9” Paolo Di Leo , Singapore University of Technology and Design, “Plotinus and Heidegger: A Dialogue Through Parmenides’ R. B3” Joseph Forte , Rivier University, “The Phaedo’s Hopes in Relation to a Figurative Reading of the ‘True Earth’ Myth” Thomas Giourgas , American College of Greece, “Synchronic and Diachronic Akrasia in Plato’s Protagoras” Ebru Kızılkaya , KADOC-KU Leuven, “Plotinus’ Metaphysics: Plotinus on The Metaphysical Evil” Dániel Attila Kovács <[email protected]>, ELTE-BTK, “The sage’s ascent to intellect in Ennead I.4” Maria Manuela Brito Martins , Universidade Católica Portuguesa- Porto, “A critical Reading of Plotinus’ Treaty VI, 1 [42] on the categories of being” Chiara Militello , Università di Catania, “Olympiodorus comments on Aristotle: the theoretical approach of the commentary on Meteorology, book 2” Ioanna Patsioti and Giannis Stamatellos , American College of Greece, “Virtue and Privacy in Plotinus and Aristotle” Jean-Philippe Ranger , St. Thomas University, “What Can We Learn from Poets? Conflicting Lessons in the Meno (99b–100d; 81a–e)” Aron Reppmann , Trinity Christian College, “‘The true account:’ Origen’s retrieval of the Seventh Letter in Against Celsus” Rebecca Sinos , Amherst College, “To Fly with the Wind: An Image in Plato's Phaedrus” Mikhail Vedeshkin , The Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “The Problem of Mystical Practices in Neoplatonic School of Pergamon” William Wians , Merrimack College, “Imitating Socrates in the Cleitophon” Evi Zacharia , Radboud University Nijmegen, “Commentary on Alcibiades I: towards an explanation of human through love”