Isagogical Crossroads from the Early Imperial Age to the End of Antiquity

Anna Motta (Ph.D. 2012, Salerno) teaches Ancient Philosophy at the University of Naples “Federico II” and was the PI of a DFG project devoted to isagogical issues at the Freie Universität Berlin. She published the volumes Prolegomeni alla filosofia di Platone (Rome 2014) and λόγους ποιεῖν. L’eredità platonica e il superamento dell’aporia dei dialoghi (Naples 2018). Federico M. Petrucci (Ph.D. 2012, Pisa) teaches Ancient Philosophy at the University of Turin. He is interested especially in Plato and the Platonist tradition, and his publications include a monograph on Taurus of Beirut (London & New York 2018) and a commented edition of Plato's Timaeus (Milan 2022).

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Contributors



Introduction: Towards the Isagogical Crossroads

 Anna Motta and Federico M. Petrucci



1 Isagogical Conceptions in the Peripatetic Exegesis of the Post-Hellenistic Age: Aspasius and the Others

 Federico M. Petrucci



2 A Middle-Platonist Plato: Introductory Schemata and the Construction of a System in Diogenes Laertius

 Franco Ferrari



3 The Nature of Apuleius’ De Platone: An Isagoge?

 Justin A. Stover



4 Isagogic Patterns in Porphyry (Isagoge and Vita Plotini)

 Irmgard Männlein-Robert



5 From the Stoic Division of Philosophy to the Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues

 Anna Motta



6 Interpretive Strategies in Proclus’ Isagogical Remarks on the Timaeus

 Gerd Van Riel



7 Eusebius and the Birth of Christian Isagogical Literature

 Sébastien Morlet



8 Prolegomena to Medicine: The Role of the Hippocratic Aphorismi

 Giulia Ecca



9 Isagogical Questions in Hipparchus’ Commentary on the Phaenomena

 Victor Gysembergh



10 Musical Eisagōgai

 Eleonora Rocconi



Appendix: Gaudentius, Introduction to Harmonics. Introduction and Translation

 Andrew Barker



Bibliography

General Index

Index Locorum