This volume gathers together a series of widely -scattered articles concerned with the great tradition of Platonic scholarship " The Golden Chain" from the time of Plato himself up into the period of Middle Platonism.

Contents: Introduction; What happened to Plato's Garden?; Self-definition in Later Platonism; The Academy in the Middle Platonic period; Female principles in Platonism; Tampering with the Timaeus: ideological emendations in Plato; Speusippus in Iamblichus; 'Xenocrates' Metaphysics: Fr.15 (Heinze) re-examined; 'Metriopatheia and apatheia': some reflections on a controversy in later Greek ethics; The transcendence of God in Philo: some possible sources; Philo and the Stoic doctrine of eupatheiai; Ganymede as the Logos: traces of a forgotten allegorisation in Philo?; The descent of the soul in Middle Platonic and Gnostic thought; Plutarch and 2nd-century Platonism; Harpocration's commentary on Plato: fragments of a Middle Platonic commentary; A date for the death of Nicomachus of Gerasa?; The concept of two intellects: a footnote to the history of Platonism; The platonising of Mithra; Plotinus, Philo and Origen on the grades of virtue; Aisthêsis noêtê: a doctrine of spiritual senses in Origen and in Plotinus; The theory of three classes of men in Plotinus and in Philo; Origen's doctrine of the Trinity and some later Neoplatonic theories; Looking on the Light: some remarks on the imagery of light in the first chapter of Origen's Peri Archÿn; The magical power of names in Origen and Later Platonism; Plotinus and the trancendental imagination; Plotinus, Enn. III 9,1 and later views on the intelligible world; Iamblichus and the origin of the doctrine of Henads; Proclus and the Parmenidean dialectic; Image, symbol and analogy: three basic concepts of Neoplatonic exegesis; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.