245 00 |a Authority and authoritative texts in the Platonist tradition / |c edited by Michael Erler, Jan Erik Hessler, Federico M. Petrucci ; with the collaboration of Michael McOsker.

264 _1 |a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; |a New York, NY : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2021.

505 0_ |a Xenocrates’ invention of Platonism / David Sedley -- An iconography of Xenocrates’ Platonism / David Sedley -- Arcesilaus’ appeal to Heraclitus as a philosophical authority for his sceptical stance / Anna Maria Ioppolo -- Authority beyond doctrines in the first century BC : Antiochus’ model for Plato’s authority / Federico M. Petrucci -- Authority and doctrine in the pseudo-Pythagorean writings / Bruno Centrone -- Constructing authority : a re-examination of some controversial issues in the theology of Numenius / Alexandra Michalewski – Plutarch’s E at Delphi : the hypothesis of Platonic authority / George Boys-Stones -- Aristotle’s Physics as an authoritative work in early Neoplatonism : Plotinus and Porphyry / Riccardo Chiaradonna -- Conflicting authorities? Hermias and Simplicius on the self-moving soul / Saskia Aerts – Kathe?gemo?n : the importance of the personal teacher in Proclus and later Neoplatonism / Christian Tornau -- ‘In Plato we can see the bad characters being changed by the good and instructed and purified’ : attitudes to Platonic dialogue in later Neoplatonism / Anne Sheppard.

520 __ |a "All disciplines can count on a noble founder, and the representation of this founder as an authority is key in order to construe a discipline's identity. This book sheds light on how Plato and other authorities were represented in one of the most long-lasting traditions of all time. It leads the reader through exegesis and polemics, recovery of the past and construction of a philosophical identity. From Xenocrates to Proclus, from the sceptical shift to the re-establishment of dogmatism, from the Mosaic of the Philosophers to the Neoplatonist Commentaries, the construction of authority emerges as a way of access to the core of the Platonist tradition"-- |c Provided by publisher.

776 08 |i Online version: |t Authority and authoritative texts in the Platonist tradition |d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New YorkNY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020. |z 9781108921596 |w (DLC) 2020045274