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Kasra Abdavi-Azar

FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow, KU Leuven

Journal articles


Appropriatio Platonica: A Taxonomy of Platonist Borrowings


Kasra Abdavi-Azar

Ancient Philosophy, vol. 45(2), 2025, pp. 545–65


Divine Authority and Platonic Succession: Proclus’ Proem to the Platonic Theology


Kasra Abdavi-Azar

Trends in Classics, vol. 17(2), 2025, pp. 273–88


Greek or barbarian? Diogenes Laertius on the contested origin of philosophy


Kasra Abdavi-Azar

Bulletin of The Institute of Classical Studies, vol. 68(3), 2025, pp. 395–407


A New Testimonium for Numenius: Proclus on the Origin of Evil’


Kasra Abdavi-Azar

Classical Quarterly, vol. 73(1), 2023, pp. 484–8


Work in progress

Proclus: Platonic Theology. Book I and II. Translation and Commentary
Cambridge University Press (under contract for 2026, co-authored with R.I. Marinescu)

Platonism and Ancient Wisdom
(monograph, in preparation)


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