Albinus and the History of Middle Platonism

Originally published in 1937, this book examines the subject of the Didaskalikos and its often overlooked author Albinus.

Reginald Eldred Witt (Author)

9781107674073, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 August 2013

160 pages
21.6 x 14 x 0.9 cm, 0.21 kg

Originally published in 1937, this book began as a doctoral dissertation by Reginald Witt on the subject of the Didaskalikos and its often overlooked author Albinus (also called Alkinoos). Witt looks at the philosophical text with an eye to its setting within the various strains of Platonism and other relevant schools of ancient philosophy. This text will be of value to anyone with an interest in Middle- and Neoplatonism and in the writings of Albinus.

Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: the Didaskalikos and its design
2. Lyceum and Stoa. General influence
3. Traces of Xenocrates
4. Antiochus: his dogmatism and its consequences
5. The sources available for the study of Antiochus
6. The Didaskalikos in relation to Antiochus
7. Antiochus, Arius Didymus, and middle Platonism
8. The writer
9. Albinus as a middle Platonist
Loci Platonici
Loci comparatio.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]