From the Old Academy to Later Neo-Platonism

This volume collects a set of papers on ancient Platonism spanning nine centuries between Plato himself and his commentator Olympiodorus in the 6th century, many of them less easy to obtain. Much of the work is at the intersection of philosophy and literature and aims to challenge existing orthodoxies. The articles are grouped in three sections, dealing with Socrates, Plato and the Old Academy, then the Platonic revival and the 2nd century AD, and finally with later Neoplatonism.