Jonathan Greig

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Publications

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Monographs

  1. The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism: A Study of the One's Causality in Proclus and Damascius. Leiden: Brill, 2021. DOI

Edited volumes

  1. Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium: Context and Legacy. Edited by Jonathan Greig, Joshua Robinson, and Dragos Calma. Leiden: Brill, 2025. DOI

Journal articles

  1. “Soul and Body in Maximus the Confessor: Between Aristotle, Neoplatonism, and Early Christianity,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, in press (accepted May 1, 2026; anticipated late 2026).
  2. “Reason, Revelation, and Sceptical Argumentation in 12th- to 14th-Century Byzantium,” Theoria 88/1, 2022. DOI
  3. “The Aporetic Method of Aristotle's Metaphysics B in Damascius' De Principiis,” History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis 24, 2021. DOI
  4. “Proclus on the Two Causal Models for the One's Production of Being: Reconciling the Relation of the Henads and the Limit/Unlimited,” International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 14/1, 2020. DOI
  5. “Proclus' Doctrine of Participation in Maximus the Confessor's Centuries of Theology I.48–50,” in Studia Patristica LXXV, ed. Markus Vinzent. Leuven: Peeters, 2017.

Book chapters

  1. “Primary and Secondary Causality: Aristotle and Proclus Behind Thomas Aquinas on the Liber de Causis, Proposition 1,” in Primary and Secondary Causality, ed. Dragos Calma, Tobias Hoffmann, and Giuseppe Thomas Vitale. New York: Routledge, 2026. URL
  2. “The Transformation of πρὸς ἕν: From Aristotle's Platonic Critiques to Platonists' Aristotelian Critiques,” with Marilù Papandreou, in Platonist Metaphysics in Response to Aristotle, ed. Roberto Granieri, Alberto Kobec, and Jan Opsomer. De Gruyter, in press (expected mid-2027).
  3. “Philosophy in the 11th–12th Centuries,” in Brill Companion to Byzantine Philosophy, ed. Michele Trizio and Börje Bydén. Brill, in press; expected late 2027.
  4. “Damascius, the One, and the Parmenides' First and Second Hypothesis,” in ΑΡΧΑΙ: Platonisms of Late Antiquity, ed. Luciana Soares Santoprete, Dylan Burns, Anna van den Kerchove, Eric Crégheur, and George Karamanolis. Brill, in press.
  5. “The Book of Causes and Nicholas of Methone on Created and Uncreated Being,” in Being in the Liber de Causis and its Legacy, ed. Dragos Calma and Evelina Maria Malgieri. Brill, in press.
  6. “Soul and Deification in Proclus, Nicholas of Methone, and the Byzantine Tradition,” in Platonic Principles: Essays in Honor of Lloyd Gerson, ed. Carl Séan O'Brien and Sarah Klitenic Wear. Washington, DC: Catholic University Press, 2025. URL / postprint
  7. “Contradiction and God Between Neoplatonism and the Byzantine Tradition: Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Nicholas of Methone,” in Contradiction and the Absolute: Theories Engaging Contradiction in Five Main World Religions, ed. Behnam Zolghadr and Graham Priest. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. DOI
  8. “The Bundle Theory in Gregory of Nyssa's Apologia in hexaemeron,” in Gregory of Nyssa: On the Hexaëmeron. Text, Translation, Commentary, ed. Johannes Zachhuber and Anna Marmodoro. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. DOI
  9. “Nicholas of Methone on Divine Ideas: Between Proclus and the Early Byzantines,” in Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium: Context and Legacy, ed. Jonathan Greig, Joshua Robinson, and Dragos Calma. Leiden: Brill, 2025. DOI
  10. “The Two Principles between On Principles and Matter and Porphyry's Other Works,” in Porphyry in Syriac: The Treatise "On Principles and Matter" and its Place in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Philosophical Traditions, ed. Yury Arzhanov. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2024. DOI
  11. “Damascius and Pseudo-Dionysius,” in Damaskios. Philosophie, Religion und Politik zwischen Ost und West, ed. Gheorghe Pascalau. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2024.
  12. “Proclus' Reception in Maximus the Confessor, Mediated through John Philoponus and Pseudo-Dionysius: A Case Study of Ambiguum 7,” in Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 3, ed. Dragos Calma. Leiden: Brill, 2022. DOI

Book reviews

  1. Review of J. Ambury, Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I: Crafting the Contemplative. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2026. DOI
  2. Review of B. Krämer, Über das Unsagbare sprechen. Formen der Theologie in Plotins Enneaden. Plekos, 2025.
  3. Review of P. Kalligas, The Enneads of Plotinus: A Commentary. Volume 2, trans. Nickolaos Koutras. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2025. DOI
  4. Review of B. Bossi and T. Robinson (eds.), Plato's Theaetetus revisited. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2021.
  5. Review of N. Spanu, Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles. Plêkos, 2021.
  6. Review of M. Vlad, Damascius et l'ineffable: récit de l'impossible discours. Rhizomata, 2021. DOI
  7. Review of J. Zachhuber, The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics. Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 2020.
  8. Review of D. O'Meara, Cosmology and Politics in Plato's Later Works. Review of Metaphysics, 2020.
  1. “Primary and Secondary Causality: Aristotle and Proclus Behind Thomas Aquinas on the Liber de Causis, Proposition 1,” in Primary and Secondary Causality, ed. Dragos Calma, Tobias Hoffmann, and Giuseppe Thomas Vitale. New York: Routledge, 2026. URL
  2. Review of J. Ambury, Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I: Crafting the Contemplative. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2026. DOI
  3. “Soul and Body in Maximus the Confessor: Between Aristotle, Neoplatonism, and Early Christianity,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, in press (accepted May 1, 2026; anticipated late 2026).
  4. “The Transformation of πρὸς ἕν: From Aristotle's Platonic Critiques to Platonists' Aristotelian Critiques,” with Marilù Papandreou, in Platonist Metaphysics in Response to Aristotle, ed. Roberto Granieri, Alberto Kobec, and Jan Opsomer. De Gruyter, in press (expected mid-2027).
  5. “Philosophy in the 11th–12th Centuries,” in Brill Companion to Byzantine Philosophy, ed. Michele Trizio and Börje Bydén. Brill, in press; expected late 2027.
  6. “Damascius, the One, and the Parmenides' First and Second Hypothesis,” in ΑΡΧΑΙ: Platonisms of Late Antiquity, ed. Luciana Soares Santoprete, Dylan Burns, Anna van den Kerchove, Eric Crégheur, and George Karamanolis. Brill, in press.
  7. “The Book of Causes and Nicholas of Methone on Created and Uncreated Being,” in Being in the Liber de Causis and its Legacy, ed. Dragos Calma and Evelina Maria Malgieri. Brill, in press.
  8. Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium: Context and Legacy. Edited by Jonathan Greig, Joshua Robinson, and Dragos Calma. Leiden: Brill, 2025. DOI
  9. “Soul and Deification in Proclus, Nicholas of Methone, and the Byzantine Tradition,” in Platonic Principles: Essays in Honor of Lloyd Gerson, ed. Carl Séan O'Brien and Sarah Klitenic Wear. Washington, DC: Catholic University Press, 2025. URL / postprint
  10. “Contradiction and God Between Neoplatonism and the Byzantine Tradition: Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Nicholas of Methone,” in Contradiction and the Absolute: Theories Engaging Contradiction in Five Main World Religions, ed. Behnam Zolghadr and Graham Priest. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. DOI
  11. “The Bundle Theory in Gregory of Nyssa's Apologia in hexaemeron,” in Gregory of Nyssa: On the Hexaëmeron. Text, Translation, Commentary, ed. Johannes Zachhuber and Anna Marmodoro. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. DOI
  12. “Nicholas of Methone on Divine Ideas: Between Proclus and the Early Byzantines,” in Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium: Context and Legacy, ed. Jonathan Greig, Joshua Robinson, and Dragos Calma. Leiden: Brill, 2025. DOI
  13. Review of B. Krämer, Über das Unsagbare sprechen. Formen der Theologie in Plotins Enneaden. Plekos, 2025.
  14. Review of P. Kalligas, The Enneads of Plotinus: A Commentary. Volume 2, trans. Nickolaos Koutras. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2025. DOI
  15. “The Two Principles between On Principles and Matter and Porphyry's Other Works,” in Porphyry in Syriac: The Treatise "On Principles and Matter" and its Place in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Philosophical Traditions, ed. Yury Arzhanov. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2024. DOI
  16. “Damascius and Pseudo-Dionysius,” in Damaskios. Philosophie, Religion und Politik zwischen Ost und West, ed. Gheorghe Pascalau. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2024.
  17. “Reason, Revelation, and Sceptical Argumentation in 12th- to 14th-Century Byzantium,” Theoria 88/1, 2022. DOI
  18. “Proclus' Reception in Maximus the Confessor, Mediated through John Philoponus and Pseudo-Dionysius: A Case Study of Ambiguum 7,” in Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 3, ed. Dragos Calma. Leiden: Brill, 2022. DOI
  19. The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism: A Study of the One's Causality in Proclus and Damascius. Leiden: Brill, 2021. DOI
  20. “The Aporetic Method of Aristotle's Metaphysics B in Damascius' De Principiis,” History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis 24, 2021. DOI
  21. Review of B. Bossi and T. Robinson (eds.), Plato's Theaetetus revisited. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2021.
  22. Review of N. Spanu, Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles. Plêkos, 2021.
  23. Review of M. Vlad, Damascius et l'ineffable: récit de l'impossible discours. Rhizomata, 2021. DOI
  24. “Proclus on the Two Causal Models for the One's Production of Being: Reconciling the Relation of the Henads and the Limit/Unlimited,” International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 14/1, 2020. DOI
  25. Review of J. Zachhuber, The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics. Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 2020.
  26. Review of D. O'Meara, Cosmology and Politics in Plato's Later Works. Review of Metaphysics, 2020.
  27. “Proclus' Doctrine of Participation in Maximus the Confessor's Centuries of Theology I.48–50,” in Studia Patristica LXXV, ed. Markus Vinzent. Leuven: Peeters, 2017.