Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Section 1: Parmenides Interpretation from Plotinus to Damascius -- 1: Plotinus and the Parmenides: Problems of Interpretation, Matthias Vorwerk -- 2: Plotinus and the Hypotheses of the Second Part of Plato's Parmenides, Kevin Corrigan -- 3: The Reception of the Parmenides before Proclus, Luc Brisson -- 4: Is Porphyry the Source Used by Marius Victorinus?, Volker Henning Drecoll -- 5: Porphyry and the Gnostics: Reassessing Pierre Hadot's Thesis in Light of the Second and Third-Century Sethian Treatises, Tuomas Rasimus6: Columns VII"VIII of the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides: Vestiges of a Logical Interpretation, Luc Brisson -- 7: Iamblichus's Interpretation of Parmenides' Third Hypothesis, John F. Finamore -- 8: Syrianus's Exegesis of the Second Hypothesis of the Parmenides: The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe Revealed, John M. Dillon -- 9: Damascius on the Third Hypothesis of the Parmenides, Sara Ahbel-Rappe -- 10: Metaphysicizing the Aristotelian Categories: Two References to the Parmenides inSimplicius's Commentary on the Categories (75,6 and 291,2 Kalbfleisch), Gerald Bechtle -- Section 2: The Hidden Influence of the Parmenides in Philo, Origen, and Later Patristic Thought -- 11: Early Alexandrian Theology and Plato's Parmenides, David T. Runia -- 12: Christians and the Parmenides, Mark Edwards -- 13: Origen's |