ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The editors would primarily like to thank the contributors for their patience and help during the production of this volume. Over the past few years we have garnered essays from various contributors in the hopes of increasing the depth and breadth of the book, and we are deeply appreciative of the fact that each of the authors recognized the value of publishing these considerations of the Socrates of late antiquity in one volume, and with a single set of conventions that have inevitably suited some more than others. We hope that in so doing, scholars of both Socrates and Neoplatonism will be assisted in their research on both subjects. We would also like to express our sincere thanks to Deborah Blake, consulting editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press, and her team for their dedication and assistance in preparing the manuscript for publication.

Harold Tarrant would like to thank the University of Newcastle’s Research Management Committee for funding that has enabled this and related work to proceed smoothly, and the Australian Research Council for generous funding under Discovery project DP0986334 (“Academies Under Stress”) for the years 2009–2012, aspects of which relate both to his own chapter and to the wider project. He would also like to thank colleagues in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge for extending facilities and privileges vital for his work, and to colleagues in Australia, especially Dirk Baltzly and Rick Benitez, for providing the stimulating environment in which the relevant interests evolved. Research assistants Terry Roberts and Reuben Ramsey have been a pleasure to work with, and there has been much profit from conversations with François Renaud, especially on Olympiodorus. The sheer energy of Danielle Layne in bringing this volume about has been what any collaborator dreams of, and final thanks are due to Judith, who patiently follows Harold around the world in pursuit of work and play.

Danielle A. Layne would like to express her gratitude to the three institutions that have supported her research since this project began: the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, Loyola University in New Orleans, and Georgia Southern University. She would particularly like to thank her former professors Carlos Steel, Gerd Van Riel, Connie Mui, and Mark Gousiaux for their encouragement over the past decade of her studies. She also extends gratitude to her colleagues at Georgia Southern University, particularly Beth Butterfield, Maria Adamos, and Bill Eaton. She is also immensely grateful for the experience of collaborating with Harold Tarrant: it was an enriching intellectual endeavor from which she learned a great deal. Finally, she thanks her husband, Tyler Tritten, for his constant support, and her son Simon McMynne for his early love of all things Socratic.