Preface Notes on Contributors Part 1 1 Divine Anonymity David Sedley 2 Introducing Philolaus Richard McKirahan 3 What Do We Learn about Philosophy and Philosophers in Republic V? Alexander Nehamas 4 The Music of Political Life Music as a Simile and a Metaphor in Political Discourse from Plato to Plutarch Angelos Chaniotis 5 Remarks on the Relation between Plato and Thucydides Vassilis Kalfas 6 Plato on Taste and Smell, and the Aristotelian Criticism Katerina Ierodiakonou 7 Aristotle in Dialogue with Plato Revisiting the Puzzle in Aristotle's De Anima III.2 (425b12-25) Voula Tsouna 8 The First Argument for the Law of Excluded Middle in Metaphysics Doukas Kapantais 9 Aristotle on Luck: Physics II.4-5 Panos Dimas 10 The Affections of the Soul: Akrasia according to the Old Stoa Maria Protopapas-Marneli 11 Intentional Action in Lucretius: External and Internal Causality Anthony A. Long 12 On the Birth of Ancient Greek Civilization Vassilis Karasmanis Part 2 13 Something about Severus Some Intriguing Aspects of the Doctrine of a Second-Century Platonist John Dillon 14 The Odyssey of Soul in Plotinus' First Writings Dominic J. O'Meara 15 Plotinus on the Simplicity of Truth Spyridon Rangos 16 Plotinus on the Homonymy of Life Riccardo Chiaradonna 17 Degrees of Participation in Plotinus Eleni Perdikouri 18 Plotinus on the Double Hamartia of the Soul in Ennead IV.8[6] Suzanne Stern-Gillet 19 The Structure and Argument of Plotinus' Treatise Against the Gnostics George Karamanolis 20 Motion and Activity in Plotinus' Ennead VI.1.15-16 Eyjólfur K.

Emilsson 21 From Athens to Rome The Milestones in Porphyry's Philosophical Education Alexandra Michalewski 22 Plotinus' Legacy in Later Neoplatonism His Parmenides-Interpretation or His Inspiration? Harold Tarrant 23 Why Teach Alcibiades? Iamblichus and Proclus on Pointless Providence Peter Adamson Index.