Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Religion and Philosophy Debate in a New Key

Part 1: Plato

Plato2019s Philosophy – Why Not Just Platonic Religion?

Platonic Piety: 2018Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again2019This paper was delivered at a conference on Ancient Philosophy and Religion in 2014, and the 2014 meeting of the SAAP in Cambridge, and the Ancient Philosophy workshop in Oxford in 2015. I wish to thank the audiences there for comments; in particular, Gabor Betegh, Sarah Broadie, Gail Fine, Christopher Gill (who suggested the title), Terence Irwin, Lindsay Judson, David Lee, Anthony Long, Malcolm Schofield, David Sedley, and James Warren. I would also like to thank Radcliffe Edmonds, James Lesher, Mark McPherran, Suzanne Ozbrdralek, Christopher Rowe, and Shaul Tor for comments.

The Real Euthyphro Problem, Solved

Religion, Philosophy, and the Demons in Between

Part 2: Explorations in an Emerging Common Discourse

Philosophical Traces in the Sibylline Oracles

Philosophy and Religion and Their Interactions in 4 Maccabees

The Rapprochement of Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Consolation: Seneca, Paul, and Beyond

Part 3: Placing Jesus among the Philosophers

Jesus among the Philosophers: The Cynic Connection Explored and Affirmed, with a Note on Philo2019s Jewish-Cynic Philosophy

The Last Days of Socrates and Christ: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo Read in Counterpoint with John2019s Gospel

Criticism of Verbosity in Ancient Philosophical and Early Christian Writings: Jesus' Critique of the `Polylogia' of Pagan Prayers (Matthew 6:7) in its Graeco-Roman Context

Part 4: Reconsidering Early Pagan-Christian Relations

Christians According to Second-Century Philosophers

Epictetus2019 Views on Christians: A Closed Case Revisited

Plotinus, Origenes, and Ammonius on the 2018King2019

Neo-Platonic Readings of Embodied Divine Presence: Iamblichus and Julian

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Subjects