Svetla Slaveva - Plotinus on Number [2009]


Svetla Slaveva-Griffin - Plotinus on Number, Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.

  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: One by Number
  • Platonic Cosmology on Plotinian Terms
  • Ennead VI.6 and the Timaeus
  • Origin of Multiplicity in Plotinus
  • Plotinus’ Apostasis and Numenius’ Stasis
  • The Universe as Degrees of Separation from the One
  • Multiplicity as Number
  • Surfacing from the “Neopythagorean Underground”
  • Outward and Inward Direction of Multiplicity in Ennead VI.6
  • Multiplicity as Effl uence and Unity
  • The Number of Infi nity
  • Plato’s Position
  • Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato and the Platonists
  • Plotinus’ Answer
  • Number and Substance
  • Plotinus’ Three Hypotheses about Number in the Intelligible Realm
  • Is Substantial Number Discrete and Incidental?
  • The Whole Number of Beings
  • Substantial and Monadic Number
  • Number and the Universe
  • Substantial Number and the One
  • Substantial Number and Absolute Being
  • Substantial Number and Intellect
  • Substantial Number and Beings
  • Substantial Number and the Complete
  • Living Being
  • Soul and Number
  • The Unfi gured Figure of Soul’s Dance
  • Unity of Thought and Writing
  • Porphyry and the Enneads
  • Ennead VI.6
  • “Six Along with the Nines”
  • Conclusion: In Defense of Plato
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names and Subjects
  • Index Locorum

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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine [2001]


  • Introduction
  • Augustine
  • Faith and reason
  • Augustine on evil and original sin
  • Predestination, Pelagianism, and foreknowledge
  • Biblical interpretation
  • The divine nature
  • De Trinitate
  • Time and creation in Augustine
  • Augustine’s theory of soul
  • Augustine on free will
  • Augustine’s philosophy of memory
  • The response to skepticism and the mechanisms of cognition
  • Knowledge and illumination
  • Augustine’s philosophy of language
  • Augustine’s ethics
  • Augustine’s political philosophy
  • Augustine and medieval philosophy
  • Post-medieval Augustinianism
  • Bibliography
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Thomas Hubbard - Homosexuality in Greece and Rome [2003]



Thomas K. Hubbard - Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents, University of California Press, 2003.

  • Translation Credits
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Archaic Greek Lyric
  • Greek Historical Texts
  • Greek comedy
  • Greek Oratory
  • Greek Philosophy
  • Hellenistic poetry
  • Republican Rome
  • Augustan Rome
  • Early Imperial Rome
  • Later Greco-Roman Antiquity
  • Works Cited
  • Index
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