Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes list
John Philoponus refutes Aristotle’s and Proclus’ arguments for the eternity of the universe, and dev
Julian the Apostate and the philosophers of Athens and Alexandria try to keep pagan philosophy alive
Dominic O'Meara speaks with Peter about political philosophy and mathematics in Neoplatonism
Anne Sheppard joins Peter to discuss aesthetics from Plato to Proclus
Proclus displays late Neoplatonism in all its glory
Iamblichus fuses Platonism with pagan religious conviction and sets the agenda for Neoplatonism in g
Porphyry defends vegetarianism and the harmony of Plato and Aristotle
James Wilberding joins Peter to examine what Plotinus and Porphyry contributed to the philosophy of
Plotinus struggles to explain the presence of suffering, evil and ugliness in a world caused by pure
For Plotinus, Soul is on the border between the physical and intelligible realms. Can he convince us
Plotinus posits an absolutely transcendent first principle, the One. What is it (or isn’t it), and h
Peter introduces Plotinus, the greatest philosopher of late antiquity and the founder of Neoplatonis
How did the mathematics of figures like Euclid and Archimides relate to ancient philosophy? Peter fi
Ptolemy uses philosophy in the service of studying the stars, while philosophers of all persuasions
Themistius, Quintilian, Lucian and other authors tell us about the connections between rhetoric and
Alexander of Aphrodisias writes the greatest ancient commentaries on Aristotle and tries to demolish
Peter looks at the history of Aristotelianism up the time of the Roman Empire and the beginning of c
Jan Opsomer helps Peter to understand principles, Plato interpretation, and Plutarch in a wide-rangi
Plutarch was a historian, a priest of Apollo, and a Platonist
Philo of Alexandria uses Platonism to understand the Bible of Moses
