Benjamin Gleede

• University of Tübingen

The article aims at demonstrating that in attributing the creatio ex nihilo to both Plato and Aristotle as their unanimous philosophical conviction the Treatise on the Harmony between the Two Sages deeply depends upon the Neoplatonic reading of those two philosophers. The main obstacles for such a view in the works of the two sages are Plato's assu...

Finally, this complicated and extensive examination of the history of a mainly theological term used in many different ways throughout the Christian litterature from the third up to the eighth century calls for a concluding summary and recapitulation, which will also give us the chance to tackle the problem we have avoided almost entirely throughou...

The analysis of Breviarium 19-24 shows that Liberatus inserts additional informations in the material stemming from the Alexandrina source he uses. Thus he offers an excursus about John II of Rome in chapter 19 and another excursus about the Roman bishops Agapet, Silverius and Vigilius in chapters 21f. For the excursus in chapter 19 the theopaschit...

The article examines the reasons for Proclus' claim that the exegetical approach of his teacher Syrianus was the only one being able to cope with all the differences of a metaphysical understanding of Plato's Parmenides, especially regarding the subject-matter of the second hypothesis. After a brief reconstruction of Proclus' view on the history of...