James Wilberding - Forms, Souls, and Embryos: Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction

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Names: Wilberding, James, author.

Title: Forms, souls, and embryos: Neoplatonists on human reproduction /

James Wilberding.

Description: First [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Issues

in ancient philosophy | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015046525 | ISBN 9781138955271 (hardback: alk.

paper) | ISBN 9781315666488 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: EmbryologyHistory. | Human reproduction

PhilosophyHistory.

Classification: LCC QL953. W55 2016 | DDC 571.8/61dc23LC record

available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015046525

ISBN: 978-1-138-95527-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-66648-8 (ebk)

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(This index includes only a selection of names of ancient people and works cited. For a full catalog of these names the reader is referred to the index locorum.)

abortion

Ad Gaurum : and World-Soul

Alexander of Aphrodisias

Ammonius Hermeiou n77

animation of embryo ;

pneumatic body theory of animation n67

Aristotle

Aristotles biological treatises, Neoplatonic interest in

articulation (of the embryo)

Asclepius n127

bile

birth n84

blood ; see also hematogenous theory; menstrual fluid

bone

brain

breath ; see also pneuma

celestial influence on human reproduction n21

celestial spheres (the heavens)

n8

conception n61

core group of Neoplatonists defined

core theory of Neoplatonic embryology , and passim

Damascius

deformities see teratogenesis

Demiurge

Democritus n164

diet

disease

Dyad (Pre-Intellect)

eighth-month child n59

emanation see procession; reversion

encephalo-myelogenic theory

evolution n40

experimentation and empirical data

female: and matter );

fetus ; see also embryo

flesh n77

formative () power n14

Forms: and celestial bodies

form-principles or formal principles ()

Galen

grafting n48

heart n18

heat

Hecate n29

hematogeneous theory n16

Herophilus n16

Hesiod

Hippocrates and the Hippocratics

Homer

humors

Iamblichus

ideoplasty n2

impulse n24

intellect ()

John of Alexandria

John Italus

liver n18

Longinus n49

male: and Intellect ; sole supplier of seed ( see one-seed theory); whether cause of motion ( see seed)

marrow n15

maternal actualization thesis

matter

medical tradition, Neoplatonic engagement with n86

menses

metaphysical models in embryology

Michael of Ephesus

Michael Psellus n33

mouth

mule n25

myth

natural science, Neoplatonic engagement with

nature: individual natures

Nemesius

Olympiodorus

One, the

Orphics n70

pangenesis n160

n155

PAP

Philo Judaeus n40

Philoponus

pica (cravings)

PIP

Plato: animation of the embryo

Plotinus

pneuma

PNP

Porphyry

predomination

preformationism

procession ; see also male (cause of procession)

Proclus n5

propensity see suitability

puppets

representation n24

resemblance to parents n9

reversion

Rhea n56

Seed: one-seed theory

sensation n79

seventh-month child n74

sex, determination of embryos

sexual intercourse

Simplicius n28

sketch

Sophonias

Soranus n74

soul: appetitive part of soul )

spermatic ducts n48

spontaneous generation

Stoics n40

suitability or propensity ()

sun n58

Syrianus

teratogenesis

Tertullian

Themistius n122

Theophilus Protospatharius

Theophrastus

traducianism see animation

transmigration

triangles

twins n103

umbilical cord n77

womb (uterus) n6

World-Soul ; see also universal nature

n79