The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Herausgeber: Marmodoro, Anna; Xenophontos, Sophia
Introduction Sophia Xenophontos and Anna Marmodoro; Part I. Ethics across
the Late Antique and Byzantine Period: 1. Sexual difference and the
difference it makes: the Greek Fathers and their sources David Bradshaw; 2.
Ethics and the hierarchy of virtues from Plotinus to Iamblichus Riccardo
Chiaradonna; 3. Neoplatonic contemplative ethics: mind training Sara
Ahbel-Rappe; 4. Ethics, virtue, and theurgy: on being a good person in
late-Neoplatonic philosophy John F. Finamore; 5. Imitation and
self-examination: the later Neoplatonists on the Platonic dialogue as moral
education through visualisation Robbert M. van den Berg; 6. The reception
of Greek ethics in Christian monastic writings Benjamin Blosser; 7.
Understanding self-determination and moral selfhood in the sources of
late-Antique and Byzantine Christian thought Demetrios Harper; 8. 'Singing
with David and contemplating Agesilaus': ethical training in Byzantium
Leonora Neville; Part II. Prominent Ethical Views of the Time: 9. The ethos
of a theologian: Gregory of Nazianzus and the reception of Classical ethics
Byron MacDougall; 10. Porphyry on justice towards animals: are animals
rational and does it matter for justice? Riin Sirkel; 11. Eustratius of
Nicaea and the Nicomachean Ethics in twelfth-century Constantinople:
literary criticism, patronage and the construction of the Byzantine
commentary tradition Michele Trizio; 12. Michael of Ephesus on the relation
of civic happiness to happiness in contemplation Péter Lautner; 13. George
Pachymeres' commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: a new witness to
philosophical instruction and moral didacticism in late Byzantium Sophia
Xenophontos.
