Research Catalog

Title

Women and the female in Neoplatonism / edited by Jana Schultz, James Wilberding.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Additional Authors

• Schultz, Jana
• Wilberding, James

Description

xiv, 312 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Sosipatra, Hypatia, Macrina: some of the most famous female philosophers of antiquity were connected to Neoplatonism. But what does it mean to be a woman philosopher in late antiquity? How is the inclusive nature of the Neoplatonic schools connected to their ethical, political, and metaphysical ideas? What role does the religious dimension of late Neoplatonism and the role of women as priestesses play in understanding Neoplatonic women philosophers? This book offers thirteen essays that examine women and the female in Neoplatonism from a variety of perspectives, paying particular attention to the interactions between the metaphysics, psychology, and ethics"--

Series Statement

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 1871-188X ; volume 30

Uniform Title

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 30.

Subject

• Neoplatonism
• Women philosophers

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Part 1: The historical presence of women in Neoplatonic Schools. Diotima, Sosipatra and Hypatia : methodological reflections on the study of female philosophers in the Platonic tradition / Crystal Addey -- Part 2: The status of women in Neoplatonic socio-political theory. Women in Plotinus / James Wilberding -- Marcella and Porphyry / Luc Brisson -- On the equality in virtue of women and men in late antique Platonism : Proclus, Julian and Philip the Philosopher / Dominic O'Meara.-- Theodorus of Asine on the equality of the sexes : traces of a rhetorical trope in the Fourth Century CE / John Dillon -- The Myth of Er and female guardians in Proclus' Republic Commentary / Dirk Baltzly -- Damascius on the virtue of women and their relation to men / Jana Schultz -- Part 3: Female principles in Neoplatonic metaphysics and science. Femininity in Porphyry's On Abstinence / Miira Tuominen -- A match made in heaven : the metaphysics of Aphrodite in Neoplatonic thinkers / Marije Martijn -- Neoplatonic motifs in Emperor Julian's Hymn to the Mother of the Gods / Christoph Helmig -- Otherwise than the father : night and the maternal causes in Proclus' Theological Metaphysics / Danielle A. Layne -- Part 4: A concluding look at two Christian Neoplatonists. Macrina's method : reason and reasoning in Gregory of Nyssa's On Soul and Resurrection / Peter Adamson -- What did Michael Psellos say about women in the 11th century / Denis Walter.

Call Number

JFE 23-2052

ISBN

• 9789004510463
• 900451046X
• 9789004517646 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022018201

OCLC

1303079504

Title

Women and the female in Neoplatonism / edited by Jana Schultz, James Wilberding.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 1871-188X ; volume 30

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 30.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Schultz, Jana, editor, contributor.

Wilberding, James, editor, contributor.

Other Form:

Online version: Women and the female in Neoplatonism Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022 9789004517646 (DLC) 2022018202

Research Call Number

JFE 23-2052