In addition to the early Platonic treatment by Numenius in his work "On the Good" I also find as interesting the intersection between Numenius and Christian history (this forum) where the Platonist Numenius is quoted (by Clement - another Platonist trained writer??) as acknowledging the chronological priority of Moses over Plato. This priority, which was held as factual in Christian education from antiquity until recent decades, has now been challenged.
the first surviving author who mentions Numenius is Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150–215) in his Stromata (I.22.150.4). Clement cites Numenius asking rhetorically what is Plato but an atticizing Moses, a citation that Eusebius takes up (Praep. Ev. XI.10.14, fr. 8; on this see below, Influence).
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/numenius/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/numenius/
Statistics: Posted by Leucius Charinus — Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:55 pm