Reading Ancient Texts. Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien. Edited by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and Kevin Corrigan. Leiden: Brill, 2007. 2 vols.

Volume I: Presocratics and Plato. Leiden: Brill, 2007. 257 pp.

В Описи А №40620. Cм. История философии.

Volume II: Aristotle and Neoplatonism. Leiden: Brill, 2007. 309 pp.

В Описи А №40621.

I. Presocratics Some Remarks on Noein in Parmenides ........... 3

F. Fronterotta (Lecce)

The Structure of the Eye and Its Cosmological Function in Empedocles. Reconstruction of Fragment 84 D.-K. ............. 21 M. Rashed (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

Empedocles, Fragment 115.3: Can One of the Blessed Pollute his Limbs with Blood? ...................... 41 J.-C. Picot (Paris)

Philolaus and the Central Fire ......................... 57 C. Huffman (DePauw)

II. Plato Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Alcibiades ................... 97

C. Gill (Exeter) Socrates on the DeÀnition of Figure in the Meno ..................... 113

T. Ebert (Erlangen) Plato’s Phaedo as Protreptic ..... 125

R.K. Sprague (South Carolina)

An Absurd Question: Plato, Symposium 199D .. 135 J.C.G. Strachan (Edinburgh)

Tumescence and Spiritual Seed in the Phaedrus ........................ 153 J.-F. Pradeau (Paris X—Nanterre & Institut Universitaire de France)

Plato against Parmenides: Sophist 236D–242B . 167 N. Notomi (Keio)

Dialectic by Negation in Three Late Dialogues ........................ 189 K.M. Sayre (Notre Dame)

A Detailed Bibliography of Denis O’Brien’s Works .................. 213

I. Aristotle Aristotle’s Conception of Dunamis and Techne .. 3

C. Natali (Venice)

Aristotle and the Starting Point of Moral Development: The Notion of Natural Virtue ..................... 23 C. Viano (CNRS, Paris)

Akrasia and Moral Education in Aristotle ........ 43 J. Cleary (Boston College & NUI Maynooth)

Effective Primary Causes: The Notion of Contact and the Possibility of Acting without Being Affected in Aristotle’s De Generatione et Corruptione ... 65 T. Buchheim (Munich)

II. Plato and His Heirs: From Apuleius to Augustine

The Organization of the Soul: Some Overlooked Aspects of Interpretation from Plato to Late Antiquity 99 K. Corrigan (Emory)

The Final Metamorphosis: Narrative Voice in the Prologue of Apuleius’ Golden Ass ........ 115 F.M. Schroeder (Queen’s, Ontario)

Plotinus: Omnipresence and Transcendence of the One in VI 5[23] .... 137 G. Gurtler S.J. (Boston College)

The Concept of Will in Plotinus ..................... 153

C. Horn (Bonn)

Divine Freedom in Plotinus and Iamblichus (Tractate VI 8 (39) 7, 11–15 and De Mysteriis III, 17–20) .... 179 J.-M. Narbonne (Laval, Québec)

Was the Vita Plotini known in Arab Philosophical Circles? ....... 199 P. Thillet (Paris I, Paris)

Friendship and Transgression: Luminosus Limes Amicitiae (Augustine, Confessions 2.2.2) and the Themes of Confessions 2 211 G. O’Daly (University College, London)

Augustine and the Philosophical Foundations of Sincerity ....... 225 S. Stern-Gillet (Bolton)

III. Epilogue: Interpretation in Retrospect Innovation and Continuity in the History of Philosophy ......... 251

D. Evans (Queen’s, Belfast)