Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity

Cinzia Arruzza is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York. She received her PhD in 2005 from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She is the author of Les mésaventures de la théodicée: Plotin, Origène, Grégoire de Nysse (Brepols 2011) and Plotinus. Ennead II 5: On What Is Potentially and What Actually, Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Parmenides Press 2015).

Dmitri Nikulin is Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York. He received his PhD in 1990 from the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow. His published articles address various aspects of ontology, psychology, science, and mathematics in Plotinus and Proclus, as well as in Plato and Aristotle. He is the author of Matter, Imagination and Geometry (Ashgate, 2002), Dialectic and Dialogue (Stanford, 2010) and the editor of The Other Plato (SUNY, 2012) and Memory: A History (Oxford, 2015).