Foreword / Suzanne Stern-Gillet
Introduction / Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Part 1. Madness, Irrationality, and Healing
Irrationality in the Platonic tradition / Lloyd P. Gerson
Plato on the manic soul / Suzanne Stern-Gillet
Plato and Plotinus on healing: Why does the art of medicine matter? / Svetla Slaveva-Griffin
Intellect sober and intellect drunk: Reflections on the Plotinian ascent narrative / John Dillon
Part 2. Ontologies and Epistemologies
Soul in Plato / Luc Brisson
Is the soul a form? The status of the soul in the final argument of the Phaedo, again / Van Tu
Against the stereotype of abstract knowledge in Plato: Scientific perception or sharp seeing in the middle and late dialogues / Kevin Corrigan
Of orioles, owls, and aviaries: Rethinking the problem of other minds / Robert Berchman
Initial stages on the ladder of ascent to the intelligible world: The metempsychotic aeons in Zostrianos and related Sethian literature / John D. Turner
Part 3. Hermeneutics and Methodologies
The indefinite Dyad and the Platonic equality of the male and female ruling principles / Danielle A. Layne
Soul in the earliest multilevel interpretations of the Parmenides / Harold Tarrant
Apuleius's Platonic laboratory / Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Proclus interprets Hesiod: The procline philosophy of the soul / John F. Finamore
Part 4. Ritual Contexts, Inspiration, and Embodied Practices
Julian and Sallust on the ascent of the soul and theurgy / Crystal Addey and Jay Bregman
The optimal times for incarnation: Let me count the ways / Dirk Baltzly and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
Prophets and poets: Plato and the daimonic nature of poetry / Elizabeth Hill
Part 5. Christian and Pagan Perspectives
The soul in Bardaisan, Origen, and Evagrius: Between unfolding and subsumption / Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
Proclus, Hermias, and Cyril of Alexandria on the embodied soul / Sara Klitenic Wear
Christian and pagan neoplatonism / Gregory Shaw.