Traces of longinus' library in eusebius' Praeparatio Evangelica

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 584-598

  Kalligas, Paul ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/cq/51.2.584     Document Type: Article

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1. partially preserved, and edited by L. Spengel, Rhetores Graeci I (Leipzig, 1853), 299-320 (= 179-207 Spengel-Hammer)
2. See J. Pépin, 'Philólogos/philósophos', in L. Brisson et al. (edd.), Porphyre. La Vie de Plotin II (Paris, 1992), 477-501
3. Zosimus, Hist. Nov. II.40.3, 113.11-4 Paschoud
4. and R. J. Penella, Greek Philosophers and Sophists in the Fourth Century A.D. (Leeds, 1990), 49-53
5. For a concise account of the developments in Palmyrene political and cultural history during the period, see H. J. W. Drijvers and M. J. Versteegh, 'Hatra, Palmyra und Edessa. Die Städte der syrisch-mesopota-mischen Wüste in politischer, kulturgeschichtlicher und religionsgeschichtlicher Beleuchtung', ANRW II.8 (1977), 846-63
6. J. Rist, 'Basil's "Neoplatonism": its background and nature', in P. J. Fedwick (ed.), Basil of Caesaria: Christian, Humanist, Ascetic (Toronto, 1981), 137-220
7. See also L. Brisson, 'Amélius: sa vie, son oeuvre, sa doctrine, son style', ANRWII.36.2 (1987), 809
8. and L. Brisson, 'Une édition d'Eustochius?', in Brisson et al. (n. 6), 66-9
9. At least not in the form in which this edition has reached us. It should be noted, however, that, according to H.-R. Schwyzer, 'Die pseudoaristotelische Theologie und die Plotin-Ausgabe des Porphyrios', RhM 90 (1941), 224, the Arabic testimony concerning the text of Plotinus indicates that Porphyry's edition must initially have included Sections B and C2
10. His philological studies in Athens near Longinus would provide another reason for Plotinus' choosing him for the task. See J. Bidez, Vie de Porphyre le philosophe néoplatonicien (Ghent, 1913), 30-6
11. Cf. M.-O. Goulet-Cazé, 'L'arrière-plan scolaire de la Vie de Plotin', in L. Brisson et al. (edd.), Porphyre, La Vie de Plotin I (Paris, 1982), 295
12. Enn. V.5, That the Intelligibles are not outside the Intellect, is known now to be a section of a larger work of anti-Gnostic polemic, apparently partitioned by Porphyry for the purposes of his edition of the Enneads. See R. Harder, 'Eine neue Schrift Plotins', Hermes 71 (1936), 1-10
13. On Intellect, the Forms and Being, an early treatise whose garbled final chapters could possibly have provoked Longinus' distress. But the approach in it is distinctively epistemological, so it would not be quite appropriate to label it simply On Being. Moreover, it is quite possible that it is this work which was referred to by Longinus in his as (V.P. 20.89)
14. cf. K. O. Weber, Origenes der Neuplatoniker (Munich, 1962), 96-8
15. On the meaning of the term 'King' in the history of Platonism, see H. Dörrie, 'Der König: ein platonisches Schlüsselwort, von Plotin mit neuem Sinn erfüllt', RIPh 24 (1970), 217-35
16. (On the text of this citation see P. Kalligas, 'Some new Plotinian emendations', Emerita 56 [1988], 100-1
17. while Y. Chitchaline, 'A propos du titre du traité de Plotin (Enn. V, 1)', REG 105 (1992), 255-9, has stressed the novelty of Plotinus' interpretation.)
18. See É. des Places, 'La tradition patristique de Platon', REG 80 (1967), 392-3
19. Cf. Favrelle (n. 39), 247: 'on ne voit pas, d'ailleurs, ce qui justifierait l'admiration d'Eusèbe pour Platon, si ce dernier n'était qu'un faussaire'
20. The importance of Eusebius' testimony for establishing the text of Plato's Laws has been discussed by I. des Places, 'Les Lois de Platon et la Préparation Évangelique d'Eusèbe de Césarée', Aegyptus 32 (1952), 223-31
21. and 'Deux temoins du texte des Lois de Platon', WS 70 (1957), 254-6
22. See E. Schwartz, 'Eusebios (24) von Caesaria', RE VI (1907), 1410-11
23. Photius, Bibliotheca, cod. 265, 492a29-37 Henry = Longinus, fr. 6c BP
24. See Ph. Merlan, 'Plotinus and the Jews', JHPh 2 (1964), 15-21
25. See the discussion in Merlan (n. 52), 17-18 and Brisson's note ad loc See further the critical assessment of the evidence by F. Millar, 'Paul of Samosata, Zenobia and Aurelian: the Church, local culture and political allegiance in third-century Syria', JRS 61 (1971), 13
26. With regard to Philo's attempt to integrate Platonic and Mosaic cosmology, see the cautious evaluation by D. T. Runia, Philo of Alexandria and the Timaeus of Plato (Leiden, 1986), 406-10
27. See fr. 12 des Places and M. Baltes, 'Zur Philosophie des Platonikers Attikos', Platonismus und Christentum: Festschrift für H. Dörrie, JbAC Erg.-Bd. 10 (Münster, 1983), 40
28. see also Favrelle (n. 39), 303-14, who notes that, although Eusebius evokes also the authority of Numenius in this context, he diverges considerably from him in his understanding of the constitution of the intelligible world. J. Whittaker, 'Moses Atticizing', Phoenix 21 (1967), 196-201, has reviewed several other attempts to relate the passage from the Septuagint with Middle Platonic doctrine
29. Cf. e.g. Philo, De opif. m. 20
30. Whittaker, Apuleius, De Plat. 6, 194
31. Atticus, fr. 9.35 - 43 des Places
32. See M. Frede, 'La teoría de las ideas de Longino', Méthexis 3 (1990), 87-9 and 96
33. and Die Weltentstehung des platonischen Timaios nach den antiken Interpreten I (Leiden, 1976), 51-63
34. See P. Kalligas, 'The Ideas as conceptions of the Demiurge: a Middle Platonic interpretation of the Timaeus' (in Modern Greek), Deucalion 15 (1997), 337-40