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title = "Introduction",
abstract = "This introduction presents Olympiodorus as a committed Platonic teacher whose exegetical work combines a loyalty to his tradition with an emphasis on independent thought. It positions the chapters of this volume in four areas of interest: the profile of the philosopher that we find in Olympiodorus{\textquoteright} work; his interest in perception and knowledge of oneself; his concern with the form of philosophical communication; and his position vis-{\`a}-vis his Christian surroundings.",
keywords = "Olympiodorus of Alexandria, Neoplatonism, didactic, exegesis, Platonism, commentary, philosophical profile, self-cognition, philosophical communication, toleration",
author = "Albert Joosse",
note = "Funding Information: The conference was hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Utrecht University and generously supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) under VENI grant 275-20-049, Socratic Educations, PI: Albert Joosse. Work on this volume was also supported through this grant, as well as by the Dutch ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) through the Dutch Research Council (NWO), as part of the Anchoring Innovation Gravitation Grant research agenda of OIKOS, the National Research School in Classical Studies, the Netherlands (project number 024.003.012). Funding Information: The present contribution was developed as part of the three-year research project {\textquoteleft}Didactic Platonism: a System of Thought and its Metaphysical Patterns{\textquoteright} funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. I am deeply grateful to Albert Joosse and Harold Tarrant, who have read this chapter and contributed to improving it through their observations. Any remaining faults are mine alone. Funding Information: that any of them can be responsible for the remaining mistakes. Research for this chapter was supported by the Hungarian NKFIH Grant 123839. Funding Information: I am grateful to the participants of the 2017 conference for their comments and to Harold Tarrant and an anonymous reviewer for their remarks on the written version. Research for this chapter was supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), VENI grant 275-20-049, Socratic Educations. It was also supported by the Dutch ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) through the Dutch Research Council (NWO), as part of the Anchoring Innovation Gravitation Grant research agenda of OIKOS, the National Research School in Classical Studies, the Netherlands (project number 024.003.012).",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1163/9789004466708_002",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-90-04-46669-2",
series = "Philosophia Antiqua",
publisher = "Brill",
pages = "1--13",
editor = "Albert Joosse",
booktitle = "Olympiodorus of Alexandria",
address = "Netherlands",
}