Isagogical crossroads from the early imperial age to the end of antiquity

Author(s)

• Motta, Anna
• Petrucci, Federico M.

Bibliographic Information

Isagogical crossroads from the early imperial age to the end of antiquity

edited by Anna Motta, Federico M. Petrucci

（Philosophia antiqua, v. 164）

Brill, c2022

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-250) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book explores how introductory methods shaped school practice and intellectual activity in various fields of thought of the Early Imperial Age and Late Antiquity. The isagogical crossroads-the intersection of philosophical, philological, religious and scientific introductory methods-embody a fascinating narrative of the methods regulating ancient readers' approach to authoritative texts and disciplines. The strongly innovative character of this book consists exactly in the attempt to explore isagogical issues in a wide-ranging and comprehensive perspective-from philosophy to religion, from medicine to exact sciences-with the aim of detecting connections, reciprocal influences, and interactions shaping the intellectual environment of the Early Imperial Age and Late Antiquity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Towards the Isagogical Crossroads Anna Motta and Federico M. Petrucci 1 Isagogical Conceptions in the Peripatetic Exegesis of the Post-Hellenistic Age: Aspasius and the Others Federico M. Petrucci 2 A Middle-Platonist Plato: Introductory Schemata and the Construction of a System in Diogenes Laertius Franco Ferrari 3 The Nature of Apuleius' De Platone: An Isagoge? Justin A. Stover 4 Isagogic Patterns in Porphyry (Isagoge and Vita Plotini) Irmgard Mannlein-Robert 5 From the Stoic Division of Philosophy to the Reading Order of Plato's Dialogues Anna Motta 6 Interpretive Strategies in Proclus' Isagogical Remarks on the Timaeus Gerd Van Riel 7 Eusebius and the Birth of Christian Isagogical Literature Sebastien Morlet 8 Prolegomena to Medicine: The Role of the Hippocratic Aphorismi Giulia Ecca 9 Isagogical Questions in Hipparchus' Commentary on the Phaenomena Victor Gysembergh 10 Musical Eisagogai Eleonora Rocconi Appendix: Gaudentius, Introduction to Harmonics. Introduction and Translation Andrew Barker Bibliography General Index Index Locorum

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• NCID: BC12846207
• ISBN:
  • 9789004506183
• LCCN: 2021054786
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 269 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA53
  • DC23 : 180
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Classical philology -- History
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Ancient -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Isagogics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00323670