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12The Platonic Art of Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions which are sometimes very different in their approaches and interests, and so rarely brought into dialogue with each other. This volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics include: the literary unity of Plato's works; the presence and role of his contemporaries in his dialo…Read more
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15The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 B.C.)American Journal of Philology 125 (3): 459-462. 2004.
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Numenius on intellect, soul, and the authority of PlatoIn Jenny Bryan, Robert Wardy & James Warren (eds.), Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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9Hesiod’s Verbal Craft: Studies in Hesiod’s Conception of Language and Its Ancient Reception by Athanassios VergadosReview of Metaphysics 74 (4): 644-645. 2021.
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12Corona ObservationsAncient Philosophy 42 (2): 509-513. 2022.Aetius 2.24.1 includes a reference to the ‘corona’ apparent during a total solar eclipse, and suggests a theory, also discernible in Plutarch, that it is a case of the optical phenomenon known as a ‘halo.’
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37Review: Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry (review)Mind 116 (464): 1129-1132. 2007.
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48Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of Its Development from the Stoics to OrigenPhilosophical Review 111 (4): 573-575. 2002.This is a relatively short but important book. Boys-Stones argues for the following : Both Platonists and Christians from the end of the first century A.D. onwards grounded the authority of a doctrine in its antiquity. Christian writers claimed that Christianity is the expression of an ancient wisdom from which both Judaism and pagan philosophy are deviations. Platonists claimed that Plato gave the fullest expression to an ancient wisdom also preserved, though less perfectly, in the supposed wri…Read more
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3The Stoics' two types of allegoryIn Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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25The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347¿274 B.C.) (Book)American Journal of Philology 125 (3): 459-462. 2004.
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Time, creation, and the mind of God: The afterlife of a platonist theory in origenIn Michael Frede, James V. Allen, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Wolfgang-Rainer Mann & Benjamin Morison (eds.), Oxford studies in ancient philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 40--319. 2011.
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24Post-Hellenistic philosophy: a study of its development from the Stoics to OrigenOxford University Press. 2001.This book traces, for the first time, a revolution in philosophy which took place during the early centuries of our era. It reconstructs the philosophical basis of the Stoics' theory that fragments of an ancient and divine wisdom could be reconstructed from mythological traditions, and shows that Platonism was founded on an argument that Plato had himself achieved a full reconstruction of this wisdom, and that subsequent philosophies had only regressed once again in their attempts to "improve" o…Read more
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46Adams, Colin, and Ray Laurence, eds. Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire. London: Routledge, 2001. x+ 202 pp. Numerous black-and-white figs. Cloth, $75. Alberti, Ioannes Baptista, ed. Thucydidis Historiae. Vol. 3: Libri VI–VIII. Scriptores Graeci et Latini Consilio Academiae Lynceorum Editi. Rome: Typis (review)American Journal of Philology 123 145-147. 2002.
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30Plato and Hesiod (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2009.A collection of essays exploring the relationship between Plato and the poet Hesiod. The volume covers a wide variety of thematic angles, brings new and sometimes surprising light to a large range of Platonic dialogues, and represents a major contribution to the study of the reception of archaic poetry in Athens.
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IntroductionIn Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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71Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.How closely do the theoretical notions of 'metaphor' and 'allegory' developed by ancient rhetoricians reflect the practice of classical writers? This question is tackled through eleven new essays by a team of distinguished academics. Ancient theories of metaphor are compared with twentieth century alternatives; theory is tested against practice; and allegory - a distinctive though neglected feature of ancient literature and philosophy - is explored against the background of the rhetoricians' cla…Read more
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Hesiod and Plato's History of PhilosophyIn G. R. Boys-Stones & J. H. Haubold (eds.), Plato and Hesiod, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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Antiochus' metaphysics'In David Sedley (ed.), The Philosophy of Antiochus, Cambridge University Press. pp. 220--36. 2012.
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8The Platonic Art of philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions which are sometimes very different in their approaches and interests, and so rarely brought into dialogue with each other. This volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics include: the literary unity of Plato's works; the presence and role of his contemporaries in his dialo…Read more
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11The epsilonpiepsilonlambdaepsilonupsilonsigmatauiotakappaeta deltaupsilonnualphamuiotasigma in Aristos Psychology of ActionPhronesis: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 41 (1): 75-94. 1996.
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6Who Speaks for Plato? Studies in Platonic Anonymity (review)The Classical Review 52 (1): 173-174. 2002.
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10Platonist Philosophy 80 Bc to Ad 250: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in TranslationCambridge University Press. 2017.'Middle' Platonism has some claim to be the single most influential philosophical movement of the last two thousand years, as the common background to 'Neoplatonism' and the early development of Christian theology. This book breaks with the tradition of considering it primarily in terms of its sources, instead putting its contemporary philosophical engagements front and centre to reconstruct its philosophical motivations and activity across the full range of its interests. The volume explores th…Read more
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36The ethics of the stoic Epictetus A. F. Bonhöffer: The ethics of the stoic Epictetus . (An English translation by W. O. Stephens.) Pp. XIX + 335. New York, etc.: Peter Lang, 1996. Cased, £37. Isbn: 0-8204-3027-7. R. Dobbin: Epictetus : Discourses book 1 . pp. XXIV + 256. Oxford: Clarendon press, 1998. Cased, £37.50. Isbn: 0-19-823664- (review)The Classical Review 50 (01): 154-. 2000.
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52SCEPTICISM R. J. Hankinson: The Sceptics . Pp. viii + 376. London and New York: Routledge, 1998 (first published 1995). Paper, £17.99. ISBN: 0-415-18446- (review)The Classical Review 50 (01): 155-. 2000.
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