Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

List of contents

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.

Summary

This collection of new essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the reception of classical Greek ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, and will interest scholars and students in the fields of philosophy, classics, patristic theology, social and cultural history of the medieval world, and the history of education.

Product details

• Authors: Sophia (University of Glasgow) Marmod Xenophontos
• Assisted by: Anna Marmodoro (Editor), Marmodoro Anna (Editor), Sophia Xenophontos (Editor), Xenophontos Sophia (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108833691
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83369-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; HISTORY / Ancient / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory