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| Section | Page |
|---|---|
| Preface | ix |
| General Introduction | 1 |
| 1. The Alexandrian School | 1 |
| 2. The Significance of Olympiodorus | 4 |
| 3. Olympiodorus’ Exegetical Approach | 6 |
| 4. Keeping ancient Greece alive within a Christian World | 8 |
| 5. The Curriculum | 11 |
| 6. Olympiodorus and his World | 15 |
| 7. Rhetoric | 17 |
| 8. Pre-Neoplatonic Interpretation of the Gorgias | 20 |
| 9. The Demiurgic Interpretation | 23 |
| 10. Olympiodorus’ Reading | 28 |
| 11. What was Olympiodorus’ core Doctrine? | 31 |
| 12. Overview of the Content of the Commentary | 33 |
| About the Translation, Notes, and Abbreviations | 51 |
| Commentary with the Grace of God On Plato’s Gorgias, taken from the Spoken Words of the Great Philosopher Olympiodorus | 53 |
| Bibliography | 325 |
| Indices | 331 |
| Index Locorum Latin: "Index of Places" (used here to mean index of passages cited). | 331 |
| Index to On the Gorgias | 341 |
| Index of Names | 344 |
| Index of Subjects | 347 |