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CONTENTS

EDITORIAL NOTE ...................................................................... 7

MICHAEL FREDE

Aristotle’s Account of the Origins of Philosophy ..................... 9

CHLOE BALLA

Isocrates, Plato, and Aristotle on Rhetoric ........................... 45

GEORGE KARAMANOLIS

Transformations of Plato’s Ethics:Platonist Interpretations of Plato’s Ethicsfrom Antiochus to Porphyry ................................................ 73

COSMIN I. ANDRON

Damascius on Knowledge and its Object ........................... 107

REVIEW

J. Barnes (ed.), Porphyry: Introduction,Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2003 (by Pavel Gregoric) ............ 125

APPENDIX

Notes for Contributors....................................................... 125

Editorial BoardIvan Christov (Editor-in-chief), University of PlovdivIstván Bodnár, Eötvös University and CEU, Budapest

Pavel Gregoric, University of ZagrebKaterina Ierodiakonou, National Technical University of Athens

Advisory BoardJonathan Barnes, Paris, France

Tzocho Bojadgiev, Sofia, BulgariaMyles Burnyeat, Oxford, UKJohn Cooper, Princeton, USAMichael Frede, Oxford, UKFilip Grgic, Zagreb, Croatia

Vassilis Karasmanis, Athens, GreeceAndre Laks, Lille, France

Peter Lautner, Piliscsaba, HungaryJames Lennox, Pittsburgh, USA

Alexander Mourelatos, Austin, USACarlo Natali, Venice, Italy

Christof Rapp, Berlin, GermanyHeinrich von Staden, Princeton, USA

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EDITORIAL NOTE ...........................................................................................................................7

HEDA ŠEGVIĆ

Protagoras’ Political Art ......................................................................................................9

PAUL KALLIGAS

Platonism in Athens During the First Two Centuries AD: An Overview .. 37

SUSANNE BOBZIEN

Peripatetic Hypothetical Syllogistic in Galen –Propositional Logic Off the Rails? .............................................................................. 57

JULIA ANNAS

Marcus Aurelius: Ethics and its Background ......................................................103

DISCUSSIONS

Julia Annas, Comments on Karamanolis ..............................................................121

REVIEWS

P. Gregorić and F. Grgić (eds.), Aristotle’s Metaphysics:A Collection of Papers, KruZak, Zagreb, 2003 (by Boris Vezjak) ............127

David Sedley, The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004 (by Filip Grgić) ......131

Dominic J. O’Meara, Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003 (by Luka Boršić) ......137

John Dillon, The Heirs of Plato. A Study of the Old Academy (347–274 BC), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2003 (by George Karamanolis) ...............143

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

New Books on Ancient Philosophy and Sciencefrom the Region of Southeast Europe (2002–2004) .........................................149

APPENDIX

Notes for Contributors .................................................................................................. 157

CONTENTS

Editorial Note .................................................................................................................................... 7

István BodnárTeleology Across Natures ................................................................................................................... 9

Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila The Relevance of Dialectical Skills to Philosophical Inquiry in Aristotle ..... 31

Damian Caluori The Essential Functions of a Plotinian soul ...................................................................... 75

Notes and Discussions

Ivan Christov The Greek Philosophical Codex No. 265 in the Plovdiv Public Library ......... 95

Reviews

Gábor Betegh, The Derveni Papyrus. Cosmology, Theology andInterpretation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004 (by Carl Huffman) ......................................................................................................................... 105

Peter Kingsley, Reality, The Golden Sufi Center, Inverness, 2003 (by Ivan Christov) .......................................................................................................................... 115

Debra Nails, The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics, Hackett, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 2002 (by Chloe Balla) ............................................................................................................................... 119

John Sellars, The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003 (by Anna Ntinti) .............................................................................................................................. 123

Appendix

Abstracts ................................................................................................................................................ 131

Notes for Contributors ............................................................................................................... 133

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M. F. BurnyeatΕΙΚΩΣ ΜΥΘΟΣ .................................................................................................................................. 143Vassilis Karasmanis AΝΑΓΚΗ and ΝΟΥΣ: The Method of Biological Research in the Timaeus ................................................. 167Pavel Gregorić Plato’s and Aristotle’s Explanation of Human Posture ........................................... 183Filip Karfík What the Mortal Parts of the Soul Really Are ............................................................. 197Katerina Ierodiakonou Plato’s Theory of Colours in the Timaeus ........................................................................ 219Péter Lautner The Timaeus on Sounds and Hearing with Some Implicationsfor Plato’s General Account of Sense-Perception ........................................................ 235

Critical Notices

Gábor Betegh, Plato’s Cosmic Teleology A Critical Notice of Thomas Kjeller Johansen,Plato’s Natural Philosophy. A Study of the Timaeus-Critias, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004 ................................................................. 255

Thomas K. Johansen, Cosmology and Psychology in the TimaeusA Critical Notice of Filip Karfík, Die Beseelung des Kosmos. Untersuchungen zur Kosmologie, Seelenlehre und Theologie in PlatonsPhaidon und Timaios, K. G. Saur Verlag, München/Leipzig 2004 .......................... 271

Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, The Ancients’ ‘Meteorology’:Forecasting and Cosmic Natural History A Critical Notice of Liba Taub, Ancient Meteorology, Routledge, London and New York, 2003 ............................................................................... 279

Reviews

Roberto Polito, The Sceptical Road: Aenesidemus’ Appropriation of Heraclitus, Brill, Leiden, 2004 (by Anna Tigani) ............................................................................................................................. 293

Nicholas White, Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics,Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2002 (by Filip Grgić) ................................................................................................................................. 301

Andrea Wilson Nightingale, Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004 (by Chloe Balla) ............................................................................................................................... 307

Appendixes

A. New Books on Ancient Philosophy and Science from the Region of South-eastern Europe (2005) .............................................. 313

B. Abstracts ......................................................................................................................................... 319

C. Notes for Contributors .......................................................................................................... 321

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Michael N. ForsterSocratic Refutation ............................................................................................................................ 7Hynek Bartoš Varieties of the Ancient Greek Body-Soul Distinction ............................................ 59Voula TsounaRationality and the Fear of Death in Epicurean Philosophy ............................... 79

Critical Notices

Nenad Miščević, Dialectic and Insight Critical notice of Gail Fine, Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2003 ................................................................. 119

Reviews

Damir Barbarić (ed.), Platon über das Gute und die Gerechtigkeit – Plato on Goodness and Justice – Platone sul Bene e sulla Giustizia, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2005 (by Filip Karfík) ............................................................................................................................... 129

Zsigmond Ritoók, Griechische Musikästhetik. Quellen zur Geschichte der antiken griechischen Musikästhetik, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2004 (by Pavlos Kaimakis) ................................................................................................................... 137

Catalin Partenie (ed.), Plato: Selected Myths, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004 (by Luka Boršić) .............................................................................................................................. 143

Verity Harte, Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2002 (by Vojtěch Hladký) ..................................................................................................................... 147

Ricardo Salles (ed.), Metaphysics, Soul and Ethics in Ancient Thought:Themes from the work of Richard Sorabji, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005 (by Stasinos Stavrianeas) ........................................................................................................... 153

Mi-Kyoung Lee, Epistemology After Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005 (by Damir Marić) ........................................................................................................................... 167

Diana Quarantotto, Causa finale, sostanza, essenza in Aristotele. Saggio sulla struttura dei processi naturali e sulla funzione del telos. Bibliopolis, Napoli, 2005 Monte Ransome Johnson, Aristiotle on Teleology, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005 (by Andrea Falcon) ....................................................................................................................... 171

Carl Huffman, Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005 (by Sylvia Berryman) ................................................................................................................... 179

Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005 (by Tobias Reinhardt) .................................................................................................................. 183

Appendixes

A. Abstracts ........� 187

B. Notes for Contributors .......................................................................................................... 189

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Panagiotis Thanassas How Many Doxai Are There in Parmenides? ............................................................. 199Jade Principe The Ascent as a Return to the Cave .................................................................................. 219Karel Thein The Life Forms and Their Model in Plato’s Timaeus ............................................. 241Attila Simon Freundschaft und Selbstverständnis bei Aristoteles ................................................ 275István M. Bugár Sceptical Theology ........................................................................................................................ 299

Reviews

Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis (eds.), Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Nicholas D. Smith) ............................................................................................................... 321

Gabriela Roxana Carone, Plato’s Cosmology and its Ethical Dimensions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005 (by Peter Lautner) ........................................................................................................................... 329

Ursula Coope, Time for Aristotle. Physics IV. 10-14, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005 (by Ioannis Papachristou) ........................................................................................................ 335

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David Bostock, Space, Time, Matter, and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Charlotte E. Witt) .................................................................................................................. 339

George E. Karamanolis, Plato and Aristotle in Agreement: Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson) ................................................................................................ 345

Appendixes

A. New Books on Ancient Philosophy and Science from the Region of South-Eastern Europe (2006) ........................................................ 349

B. Abstracts ......... 187

C. Notes for Contributors .......................................................................................................... 189

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Michael Frede On the Unity and the Aim of the Derveni Text ................................................................. 9

Spyridon Rangos Latent Meaning and Manifest Content in the Derveni Papyrus ........................ 35

Alberto Bernabé Autour de l’interprétation des colonnes XIII-XVI du Papyrus de Derveni .................................................................................................................... 77

Stavros Kouloumentas The Derveni Papyrus on Cosmic Justice ........................................................................... 105

Gábor Betegh The Derveni Papyrus and Early Stoicism ....................................................................... 133

Critical Notices

André Laks T. Kouromenos, G. M. Parássoglou, K. Tsantsanoglou, The Derveni Papyrus. Edited with Introduction and Commentary, Studi e Testi per il Corpus dei Papiri Filosofici Greci e Latini 13, Leo Olschki, Firenze, 2006 ....................................................................................................... 153

Andrea Falcon Aristote, De la génération et la corruption, texte établi et traduit par Marwan Rashed, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2005 ................................................................................................ 163

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Frisbee C. C. Sheffield, Plato’s Symposium: The Ethics of Desire, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006(by Jakub Jirsa) ... 177

Hendrik Lorenz, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Jonathan Barnes) ...................................................................................................................... 185

James Warren, Facing Death. Epicurus and his Critics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2004 (by Voula Tsouna) ............................................................................................................................ 195

Nancy Sherman, Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005 (by Pavel Gregorić) .......................................................................................................................... 203

Sextus Empiricus, Against the Logicians, translated and edited by Richard Bett, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005 (by Filip Grgić) ... 209

Porphyre, Sentences. Études d’introduction, texte grec et traduction française, commentaire par l’Unité Propre de Recherche n°76 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, avec une traductionanglaise de John Dillon. Travaux édités sous la responsabilité de Luc Brisson. J. Vrin, Paris, 2005 (by Vladimir Marinov) ................................................................................................................. 215

Catherine Conybeare, The Irrational Augustine, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Charles Brittain) ....................................................................................................................... 227

Appendixes

Abstracts ................. 235

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Gábor Bolonyai Protagoras the Atheist ............................................................................................................... 247

Marko Malink Categories in Topics I.9 ............................................................................................................ 271Robert Mayhew Aristotle on Prayer ....................................................................................................................... 295

Critical NoticesFrancesca MasiSwerves and Voluntary Actions Critical notice of Tim O’ Keefe, Epicurus on Freedom, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005 ........................................................ 311Mauro BonazziEnesidemo ed Eraclito Critical notice of Roberto Polito, The Sceptical Road: Aenesidemus’Appropriation of Heraclitus, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2004; Brigitte Pérez-Jean, Dogmatisme et scepticisme: L’héraclitisme d’Énésidème, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq, 2005 ..................................... 329

Reviews

Samuel C. Rickless, Plato’s Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007 (by Karel Thein) ............................................................................................................................... 339

Aristoteles: De Memoria et Reminiscentia, Übersetzt und erläutert von R. A. H King, 158 S., Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2004 (by Georgia Tsouni) .......................................................................................351

Cicero, On Academic Scepticism, translated with introduction and notes by Charles Brittain, Hackett, Indianapolis and Cambridge, 2006 (by Tobias Reinhardt) .................................................................................................................. 359

James Wilberding, Plotinus’ Cosmology. A Study of Ennead II.1 (40). Text, Translation, and Commentary, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Filip Karfík) ..............................................................................................361

Kieran McGroarty, Plotinus on Eudaimonia: A Commentary on Ennead I.4, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Paul Kalligas) ............................................................................................................................ 369

Vaclav Nemec, Marius Victorinus: The Consubstantiality of The Trinity (in Czech: Marius Victorinus: O soupodstatnosti Trojice) OIKOYMENH, Prague, 2006 (by Dimitar Dimitrov) ...................................................................................375

Simon Harrison, Augustine's Way into the Will: The Theological and Philosophical Significance of De Libero Arbitrio, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Stjepan Kušar) .......................................................................................................................... 379

Mary Louise Gill and Pierre Pellegrin (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2006 (by Tiberiu Popa) ............................................................................................................................ 383

Timothy Chappell (ed.), Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006 (by Elvio Baccarini) ....................................................................................................................... 389

Philip J. van der Eijk, Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005 (by Maja Hudoletnjak Grgić) ................................................................................................. 395

AppendixesA. Abstracts .......� 401B. New Books on Ancient Philosophy and Science from the Region of

South-Eastern Europe (2007) ...................................................................................... 403C. Notes for Contributors ..................................................................................................... 411

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Filip Karfík Editorial Note ................................................................................................... 7István Bodnár Matters of Size, Texture, and Resilience: The Varieties of Elemental Forms in Plato’s Timaeus..................................... 9Vladimír Mikeš Plato’s Necessity Revisited .............................................................................. 35Karel Thein War, Gods and Mankind in the Timaeus–Critias ....................................... 49Jakub Jinek Love and Friendship in the Lysis and the Symposium: Human and Divine ...................................................................................... 109

Critical Notices

Jonathan Barnes‘There Was an Old Person from Tyre’ Critical notice of George Karamanolis and Anne Sheppard (eds.), Studies on Porphyry ....................................... 127

Reviews

Maria Michela Sassi (ed.), La costruzione del discorso filosofico nell’età dei presocratici / The Construction of Philosophical Discourse in the Age of the Presocratics (by Richard McKirahan) .................................................................................153

Democritus: Science, The Arts, and the Care of the Soul. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Democritus (Paris, 18–20 September 2003) (by Karel Thein)...............................................................................................165

Aleš Havlíček and Filip Karfík (eds.), Plato’s Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense (by László Bene) ..............................................................................................183

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Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Plotinus on Intellect (by Paul Kalligas) .............................................................................................197

Christopher Gill, The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought(by George Karamanolis) ................................................................................203

Richard Sorabji, Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life and Death (by Péter Lautner) ............................................................................................209

Appendixes

A. Abstracts ....................................................................................................................................... 223B. Notes for contributors ......................................................................................................... 227

István Bodnár

Vladimír Mikeš

Karel Thein

Jakub Jinek

Jonathan Barnes

Richard McKirahan

László Bene

Paul Kalligas

George Karamanolis

Péter Lautner