Table of Contents

Introduction Malcolm Schofield; 1. The texts of Plato and Aristotle in the first century BC Myrto Hatzimichali; 2. Platonist approaches to Aristotle: from Antiochus of Ascalon to Eudorus of Alexandria (and beyond) Riccardo Chiaradonna; 3. Boethius' Aristotelian ontology Marwan Rashed; 4. Aristotelianism in the first century BC: Xenarchus of Seleucia Andrea Falcon; 5. Posidonius as historian of philosophy: an interpretation of Plutarch, De Animae Procreatione in Timaeo 22, 1023b-c Anna Eunyoung Ju; 6. Asclepiades of Bithynia and Heraclides Ponticus: medical Platonism? Roberto Polito; 7. The eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander Polyhistor A. A. Long; 8. Pythagoreanizing Aristotle: Eudorus and the systematization of Platonism Mauro Bonazzi; 9. Cicero and the Timaeus David Sedley; 10. Plato's Laws and Cicero's De Legibus Julia Annas; 11. Of Cicero's Plato: fictions, forms, foundations Ingo Gildenhard.

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Presents an up-to-date overview of the new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC.

About the Author

Malcolm Schofield is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He is co-author (with G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven) of the second edition of The Presocratic Philosophers (1983) and co-editor (with Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes and Jaap Mansfeld) of The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (1999). His other publications include An Essay on Anaxagoras (1980), The Stoic Idea of the City (1991; 2nd edition, 1999) and Plato: Political Philosophy (2006).