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© Michael Frede, Chloe Balla, George Karamanolis, Cosmin Andron, Pavel Gregoric, authors, 2004© East-West Publishers, 2004© Dima Nedialkova-Kaprieva, design, 2004
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL NOTE ...................................................................... 7
MICHAEL FREDE
Aristotle’s Account of the Origins of Philosophy ..................... 9
CHLOE BALLA
Isocrates, Plato, and Aristotle on Rhetoric ........................... 45
GEORGE KARAMANOLIS
Transformations of Plato’s Ethics:Platonist Interpretations of Plato’s Ethicsfrom Antiochus to Porphyry ................................................ 73
COSMIN I. ANDRON
Damascius on Knowledge and its Object ........................... 107
REVIEW
J. Barnes (ed.), Porphyry: Introduction,Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2003 (by Pavel Gregoric) ............ 125
APPENDIX
Notes for Contributors....................................................... 125
Editorial BoardIvan Christov (Editor-in-chief), University of PlovdivIstván Bodnár, Eötvös University and CEU, Budapest
Pavel Gregoric, University of ZagrebKaterina Ierodiakonou, National Technical University of Athens
Advisory BoardJonathan Barnes, Paris, France
Tzocho Bojadgiev, Sofia, BulgariaMyles Burnyeat, Oxford, UKJohn Cooper, Princeton, USAMichael Frede, Oxford, UKFilip Grgic, Zagreb, Croatia
Vassilis Karasmanis, Athens, GreeceAndre Laks, Lille, France
Peter Lautner, Piliscsaba, HungaryJames Lennox, Pittsburgh, USA
Alexander Mourelatos, Austin, USACarlo Natali, Venice, Italy
Christof Rapp, Berlin, GermanyHeinrich von Staden, Princeton, USA
AddressIvan Christov
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EDITORIAL NOTE ...........................................................................................................................7
HEDA ŠEGVIĆ
Protagoras’ Political Art ......................................................................................................9
PAUL KALLIGAS
Platonism in Athens During the First Two Centuries AD: An Overview .. 37
SUSANNE BOBZIEN
Peripatetic Hypothetical Syllogistic in Galen –Propositional Logic Off the Rails? .............................................................................. 57
JULIA ANNAS
Marcus Aurelius: Ethics and its Background ......................................................103
DISCUSSIONS
Julia Annas, Comments on Karamanolis ..............................................................121
REVIEWS
P. Gregorić and F. Grgić (eds.), Aristotle’s Metaphysics:A Collection of Papers, KruZak, Zagreb, 2003 (by Boris Vezjak) ............127
David Sedley, The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004 (by Filip Grgić) ......131
Dominic J. O’Meara, Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003 (by Luka Boršić) ......137
John Dillon, The Heirs of Plato. A Study of the Old Academy (347–274 BC), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2003 (by George Karamanolis) ...............143
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
New Books on Ancient Philosophy and Sciencefrom the Region of Southeast Europe (2002–2004) .........................................149
APPENDIX
Notes for Contributors .................................................................................................. 157
CONTENTS
Editorial Note .................................................................................................................................... 7
István BodnárTeleology Across Natures ................................................................................................................... 9
Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila The Relevance of Dialectical Skills to Philosophical Inquiry in Aristotle ..... 31
Damian Caluori The Essential Functions of a Plotinian soul ...................................................................... 75
Notes and Discussions
Ivan Christov The Greek Philosophical Codex No. 265 in the Plovdiv Public Library ......... 95
Reviews
Gábor Betegh, The Derveni Papyrus. Cosmology, Theology andInterpretation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004 (by Carl Huffman) ......................................................................................................................... 105
Peter Kingsley, Reality, The Golden Sufi Center, Inverness, 2003 (by Ivan Christov) .......................................................................................................................... 115
Debra Nails, The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics, Hackett, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 2002 (by Chloe Balla) ............................................................................................................................... 119
John Sellars, The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003 (by Anna Ntinti) .............................................................................................................................. 123
Appendix
Abstracts ................................................................................................................................................ 131
Notes for Contributors ............................................................................................................... 133
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M. F. BurnyeatΕΙΚΩΣ ΜΥΘΟΣ .................................................................................................................................. 143Vassilis Karasmanis AΝΑΓΚΗ and ΝΟΥΣ: The Method of Biological Research in the Timaeus ................................................. 167Pavel Gregorić Plato’s and Aristotle’s Explanation of Human Posture ........................................... 183Filip Karfík What the Mortal Parts of the Soul Really Are ............................................................. 197Katerina Ierodiakonou Plato’s Theory of Colours in the Timaeus ........................................................................ 219Péter Lautner The Timaeus on Sounds and Hearing with Some Implicationsfor Plato’s General Account of Sense-Perception ........................................................ 235
Critical Notices
Gábor Betegh, Plato’s Cosmic Teleology A Critical Notice of Thomas Kjeller Johansen,Plato’s Natural Philosophy. A Study of the Timaeus-Critias, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004 ................................................................. 255
Thomas K. Johansen, Cosmology and Psychology in the TimaeusA Critical Notice of Filip Karfík, Die Beseelung des Kosmos. Untersuchungen zur Kosmologie, Seelenlehre und Theologie in PlatonsPhaidon und Timaios, K. G. Saur Verlag, München/Leipzig 2004 .......................... 271
Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, The Ancients’ ‘Meteorology’:Forecasting and Cosmic Natural History A Critical Notice of Liba Taub, Ancient Meteorology, Routledge, London and New York, 2003 ............................................................................... 279
Reviews
Roberto Polito, The Sceptical Road: Aenesidemus’ Appropriation of Heraclitus, Brill, Leiden, 2004 (by Anna Tigani) ............................................................................................................................. 293
Nicholas White, Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics,Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2002 (by Filip Grgić) ................................................................................................................................. 301
Andrea Wilson Nightingale, Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004 (by Chloe Balla) ............................................................................................................................... 307
Appendixes
A. New Books on Ancient Philosophy and Science from the Region of South-eastern Europe (2005) .............................................. 313
B. Abstracts ......................................................................................................................................... 319
C. Notes for Contributors .......................................................................................................... 321
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Michael N. ForsterSocratic Refutation ............................................................................................................................ 7Hynek Bartoš Varieties of the Ancient Greek Body-Soul Distinction ............................................ 59Voula TsounaRationality and the Fear of Death in Epicurean Philosophy ............................... 79
Critical Notices
Nenad Miščević, Dialectic and Insight Critical notice of Gail Fine, Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2003 ................................................................. 119
Reviews
Damir Barbarić (ed.), Platon über das Gute und die Gerechtigkeit – Plato on Goodness and Justice – Platone sul Bene e sulla Giustizia, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2005 (by Filip Karfík) ............................................................................................................................... 129
Zsigmond Ritoók, Griechische Musikästhetik. Quellen zur Geschichte der antiken griechischen Musikästhetik, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2004 (by Pavlos Kaimakis) ................................................................................................................... 137
Catalin Partenie (ed.), Plato: Selected Myths, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004 (by Luka Boršić) .............................................................................................................................. 143
Verity Harte, Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2002 (by Vojtěch Hladký) ..................................................................................................................... 147
Ricardo Salles (ed.), Metaphysics, Soul and Ethics in Ancient Thought:Themes from the work of Richard Sorabji, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005 (by Stasinos Stavrianeas) ........................................................................................................... 153
Mi-Kyoung Lee, Epistemology After Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005 (by Damir Marić) ........................................................................................................................... 167
Diana Quarantotto, Causa finale, sostanza, essenza in Aristotele. Saggio sulla struttura dei processi naturali e sulla funzione del telos. Bibliopolis, Napoli, 2005 Monte Ransome Johnson, Aristiotle on Teleology, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005 (by Andrea Falcon) ....................................................................................................................... 171
Carl Huffman, Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005 (by Sylvia Berryman) ................................................................................................................... 179
Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005 (by Tobias Reinhardt) .................................................................................................................. 183
Appendixes
A. Abstracts ........� 187
B. Notes for Contributors .......................................................................................................... 189
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Panagiotis Thanassas How Many Doxai Are There in Parmenides? ............................................................. 199Jade Principe The Ascent as a Return to the Cave .................................................................................. 219Karel Thein The Life Forms and Their Model in Plato’s Timaeus ............................................. 241Attila Simon Freundschaft und Selbstverständnis bei Aristoteles ................................................ 275István M. Bugár Sceptical Theology ........................................................................................................................ 299
Reviews
Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis (eds.), Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Nicholas D. Smith) ............................................................................................................... 321
Gabriela Roxana Carone, Plato’s Cosmology and its Ethical Dimensions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005 (by Peter Lautner) ........................................................................................................................... 329
Ursula Coope, Time for Aristotle. Physics IV. 10-14, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005 (by Ioannis Papachristou) ........................................................................................................ 335
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David Bostock, Space, Time, Matter, and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Charlotte E. Witt) .................................................................................................................. 339
George E. Karamanolis, Plato and Aristotle in Agreement: Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson) ................................................................................................ 345
Appendixes
A. New Books on Ancient Philosophy and Science from the Region of South-Eastern Europe (2006) ........................................................ 349
B. Abstracts ......... 187
C. Notes for Contributors .......................................................................................................... 189
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Michael Frede On the Unity and the Aim of the Derveni Text ................................................................. 9
Spyridon Rangos Latent Meaning and Manifest Content in the Derveni Papyrus ........................ 35
Alberto Bernabé Autour de l’interprétation des colonnes XIII-XVI du Papyrus de Derveni .................................................................................................................... 77
Stavros Kouloumentas The Derveni Papyrus on Cosmic Justice ........................................................................... 105
Gábor Betegh The Derveni Papyrus and Early Stoicism ....................................................................... 133
Critical Notices
André Laks T. Kouromenos, G. M. Parássoglou, K. Tsantsanoglou, The Derveni Papyrus. Edited with Introduction and Commentary, Studi e Testi per il Corpus dei Papiri Filosofici Greci e Latini 13, Leo Olschki, Firenze, 2006 ....................................................................................................... 153
Andrea Falcon Aristote, De la génération et la corruption, texte établi et traduit par Marwan Rashed, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2005 ................................................................................................ 163
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Frisbee C. C. Sheffield, Plato’s Symposium: The Ethics of Desire, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006(by Jakub Jirsa) ... 177
Hendrik Lorenz, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Jonathan Barnes) ...................................................................................................................... 185
James Warren, Facing Death. Epicurus and his Critics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2004 (by Voula Tsouna) ............................................................................................................................ 195
Nancy Sherman, Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005 (by Pavel Gregorić) .......................................................................................................................... 203
Sextus Empiricus, Against the Logicians, translated and edited by Richard Bett, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005 (by Filip Grgić) ... 209
Porphyre, Sentences. Études d’introduction, texte grec et traduction française, commentaire par l’Unité Propre de Recherche n°76 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, avec une traductionanglaise de John Dillon. Travaux édités sous la responsabilité de Luc Brisson. J. Vrin, Paris, 2005 (by Vladimir Marinov) ................................................................................................................. 215
Catherine Conybeare, The Irrational Augustine, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Charles Brittain) ....................................................................................................................... 227
Appendixes
Abstracts ................. 235
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Gábor Bolonyai Protagoras the Atheist ............................................................................................................... 247
Marko Malink Categories in Topics I.9 ............................................................................................................ 271Robert Mayhew Aristotle on Prayer ....................................................................................................................... 295
Critical NoticesFrancesca MasiSwerves and Voluntary Actions Critical notice of Tim O’ Keefe, Epicurus on Freedom, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005 ........................................................ 311Mauro BonazziEnesidemo ed Eraclito Critical notice of Roberto Polito, The Sceptical Road: Aenesidemus’Appropriation of Heraclitus, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2004; Brigitte Pérez-Jean, Dogmatisme et scepticisme: L’héraclitisme d’Énésidème, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq, 2005 ..................................... 329
Reviews
Samuel C. Rickless, Plato’s Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007 (by Karel Thein) ............................................................................................................................... 339
Aristoteles: De Memoria et Reminiscentia, Übersetzt und erläutert von R. A. H King, 158 S., Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2004 (by Georgia Tsouni) .......................................................................................351
Cicero, On Academic Scepticism, translated with introduction and notes by Charles Brittain, Hackett, Indianapolis and Cambridge, 2006 (by Tobias Reinhardt) .................................................................................................................. 359
James Wilberding, Plotinus’ Cosmology. A Study of Ennead II.1 (40). Text, Translation, and Commentary, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Filip Karfík) ..............................................................................................361
Kieran McGroarty, Plotinus on Eudaimonia: A Commentary on Ennead I.4, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Paul Kalligas) ............................................................................................................................ 369
Vaclav Nemec, Marius Victorinus: The Consubstantiality of The Trinity (in Czech: Marius Victorinus: O soupodstatnosti Trojice) OIKOYMENH, Prague, 2006 (by Dimitar Dimitrov) ...................................................................................375
Simon Harrison, Augustine's Way into the Will: The Theological and Philosophical Significance of De Libero Arbitrio, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Stjepan Kušar) .......................................................................................................................... 379
Mary Louise Gill and Pierre Pellegrin (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2006 (by Tiberiu Popa) ............................................................................................................................ 383
Timothy Chappell (ed.), Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Elvio Baccarini) ....................................................................................................................... 389
Philip J. van der Eijk, Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005 (by Maja Hudoletnjak Grgić) ................................................................................................. 395
AppendixesA. Abstracts .......� 401B. New Books on Ancient Philosophy and Science from the Region of
South-Eastern Europe (2007) ...................................................................................... 403C. Notes for Contributors ..................................................................................................... 411
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Filip Karfík Editorial Note ................................................................................................... 7István Bodnár Matters of Size, Texture, and Resilience: The Varieties of Elemental Forms in Plato’s Timaeus..................................... 9Vladimír Mikeš Plato’s Necessity Revisited .............................................................................. 35Karel Thein War, Gods and Mankind in the Timaeus–Critias ....................................... 49Jakub Jinek Love and Friendship in the Lysis and the Symposium: Human and Divine ...................................................................................... 109
Critical Notices
Jonathan Barnes‘There Was an Old Person from Tyre’ Critical notice of George Karamanolis and Anne Sheppard (eds.), Studies on Porphyry ....................................... 127
Reviews
Maria Michela Sassi (ed.), La costruzione del discorso filosofico nell’età dei presocratici / The Construction of Philosophical Discourse in the Age of the Presocratics (by Richard McKirahan) .................................................................................153
Democritus: Science, The Arts, and the Care of the Soul. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Democritus (Paris, 18–20 September 2003) (by Karel Thein)...............................................................................................165
Aleš Havlíček and Filip Karfík (eds.), Plato’s Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense (by László Bene) ..............................................................................................183
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Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Plotinus on Intellect (by Paul Kalligas) .............................................................................................197
Christopher Gill, The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought(by George Karamanolis) ................................................................................203
Richard Sorabji, Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life and Death (by Péter Lautner) ............................................................................................209
Appendixes
A. Abstracts ....................................................................................................................................... 223B. Notes for contributors ......................................................................................................... 227
István Bodnár
Vladimír Mikeš
Karel Thein
Jakub Jinek
Jonathan Barnes
Richard McKirahan
László Bene
Paul Kalligas
George Karamanolis
Péter Lautner