Music and philosophy in the Roman Empire / edited by Francesco Pelosi and Federico M. Petrucci.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The scala naturae and music: two models in Philo's thought -- Music and Plutarch's platonic cosmos -- The harmoniser God: harmony as a cosmological model in middle platonist theology -- Alexander of Aphrodisias and musical models for ontological enquiries -- How to resist musical dogmatism: the aim and methods of Pyrrhonian inquiry in Sextus Empiricus' against the musiologists -- Shifting epistemological perspectives in Ptolemy's harmonics: from the science of sound to the study of music -- Musical imagery in clement of Alexandria and Origen: the Greek musical world revised and accepted -- Plotinus on music, rhythm and harmony -- Porphyry's commentary on Ptolemy's harmonics: questions of philosophic and scientific identity -- The music of the virtues in late ancient platonism -- Harmonics as theological paradigm in Proclus -- Calcidius on cosmic harmony -- Harmonia in Philoponus' commentary on Nicomachus' introduction to arithmetic.