Platonic Theories of Prayer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Platonic Theories of Prayer is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. Composed by a panel of distinguished scholars, they offer a comprehensive view of the various roles and levels of prayer characteristic of this period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9789004308725
• ISBN-10: 9004308725
• Artikelnr.: 43917456

Autorenporträt

John Dillon is Regius Professor of Greek (emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin. Graduating from Oxford in 1961, he gained a PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 1969, and subsequently joined the faculty there, until returning to Dublin in 1980. He is the author and editor of several books on Greek Philosophy, in particular the history of the Platonic tradition, including The Middle Platonists (1977/1996). Andrei Timotin is researcher at the Romanian Academy (ISEES), Bucharest. He received a PhD in History at the EHESS in Paris (2008), and another one in Ancient Philosophy at EPHE, Paris (2010). His publications on the Platonic tradition include La démonologie platonicienne. Histoire de la notion de daimōn de Platon aux derniers néoplatoniciens, Brill (2012), for which he received the Reinach Prize of the Association des Études Grecques. Contributors are: Luc Brisson, John Dillon, Gilles Dorival, Danielle A. Layne, Menahem Luz, Carl S. O'Brien, José Manuel Redondo, Andrei Timotin, Marilena Vlad and Michael Wakoff.