| Research Interests |
Ancient Philosophy with focus on Platonism and Neoplatonism; The dialogue of ancient philosophy with areas “outside of its box:” literary genre, poetry, myth, religion, medicine, Eastern thought, and Sufism; Intellectual History
Ancient Numerology; Ancient Medicine; Ancient Healing Cults and Centers
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| Publications |
BOOKS
Plotinus on Number, Oxford University Press (2009) [available through OUP online here]
ARTICLES
“Medicine in the Life and Works of Plotinus,” Proceedings of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 (2010) 93-117
“Contemplative Ascent in Plotinus and Rūmī,” in Philosophy and Religion in Late Antiquity, K. Corrigan, ed., Akademie Verlag (forthcoming 2010)
“Between the Two Realms: Plotinus’ Pure Soul” in Greek Religion: Philosophy and Salvation, V. Adluri, ed., in the series Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, de Gruyter (forthcoming 2010)
“Neoplatonic Views on Madness and Madness” in The Concept of Madness from Homer to Byzantium: History and Aspects, H. Perdicoyianni, ed., Peter Lang (forthcoming 2011)
“Tracing the Untraceable: Plotinian Motifs in the Pseudo-Galenic De Spermate” in Stromata. Neoplatonic Questions, José M. Zamora, ed., Hakkert Publications
“Unity of Thought and Writing: Enn. 6.6 and Porphyry’s Arrangement of the Enneads,” CQ 58.1 (2008) 277-285
“Philosophy and Myth: Review Of Recent Scholarship,” in Philosophy and the Longing for Myth, H. Tarrant and R. Benitez, eds., in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, vol. 12.2 (2007) 247-250
“’A Feast of Speeches:’ Form and Content in Plato’s Timaeus,”Hermes 133.3 (2005) 312-327
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