Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity Supplements to Novum Testamentum Executive Editors M.M. Mitchell (Chicago) D.P. Moessner (Fort Worth) Editorial Board H.W. Attridge (New Haven) – C. Breytenbach (Berlin) C. Gerber (Berlin) – J.K. Elliott (Leeds) R. Hirsch-Luipold (Bern) – C.R. Holladay (Atlanta) J.W. Knust (Chapel Hill, NC) – D. Marguerat (Lausanne) M. Niehoff (Jerusalem) – B. Nongbri (Oslo) Uta Poplutz (Wuppertal) – J.E. Spittler (Charlottesville, VA) J.C. Thom (Stellenbosch) – P. Trebilco (Dunedin) C.M. Tuckett (Oxford) – J. Verheyden (Leuven) volume 188 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/nts Johan C. Thom Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity Studies in Honor of Johan C. Thom Edited by Gideon R. Kotzé Philip R. Bosman LEIDEN | BOSTON The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at https://catalog.loc.gov Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 0167-9732 isbn 978-90-04-51748-6 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-51772-1 (e-book) Copyright 2022 by Gideon R. Kotzé and Philip R. Bosman. Published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Hotei, Brill Schöningh, Brill Fink, Brill mentis, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Böhlau and V&R unipress. Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect this publication against unauthorized use. Requests for re-use and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill NV via brill.com or copyright.com. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Contents Preface xi Abbreviations xii Contributors xviii 1 Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity Introduction to the Volume 1 Gideon R. Kotzé and Philip R. Bosman 2 Popular or Religious? An Ongoing Discussion with Johan Thom’s Concept of Philosophy in Early Imperial Times 11 Rainer Hirsch-Luipold 3 Did Ancient Philosophers Read Philo? Philo of Alexandria and Plotinus 37 Gregory E. Sterling 4 Popular Philosophy and the Placita of Aëtius 64 David T. Runia 5 Cynics in the Crosshairs The loci classici for the Anonymous Cynics of the Early Roman Empire 84 Philip R. Bosman 6 The Oracular Theme in Plato’s Apology of Socrates 109 Clive Chandler 7 Transatlantic Utopias Plato’s Republic and the Guarani Missions in South America 124 Gabriele Cornelli 8 La lecture néoplatonicienne de la biographie de Pythagore par Jamblique Quatre exemples tirés de son traité Sur le mode de vie pythagoricien 137 Constantinos Macris 9 John Chrysostom on Pythagoreanism 179 Chris L. de Wet viii Contents 10 When Horses Weep Animal Emotions and Human Suffering in the Aeneid 201 Annemarie de Villiers 11 Taxation in the Early Greek World and the Ethics of Tax Compliance and Evasion in Early Greek Moral Thought 217 John T. Fitzgerald 12 Did All First-Century Roads Lead to Rome? The Politics of Biblical (nt) Travels 246 Jeremy Punt 13 Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s Roman Antiquities as a Comparative Text for Luke–Acts 266 Carl R. Holladay 14 Writing the Sublime in a Destitute Time 287 L.L. Welborn 15 Crucifying Desires—Desires Crucified On the Meaning of Two Crucifixion Metaphors (Seneca De vita beata 19.3; Gal 5:24) 313 David du Toit 16 Which Seneca, Which Paul? The Pseudepigraphic Correspondence 337 Gretchen Reydams-Schils 17 Miracles of the Young Jesus 350 David Konstan 18 Acts of Timothy The Latin Tradition 362 Clare K. Rothschild 19 Imperative Aspect in the Gospel according to Mark Performative Instruction through Direct Speech 388 Cilliers Breytenbach Contents ix 20 Johan Thom’s Contribution to Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Judaism 414 Gideon R. Kotzé Index of Modern Authors 441 Index of Subjects 451