Constantinos Macris is a Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), in Paris (France). He specializes in ancient Greek philosophy and its relation to religion, from the Presocratics to the late Platonists. After a Doctoral dissertation on Iamblichus’ Pythagorean Way of Life (Paris 2004), he has published numerous articles and book chapters on Pythagoras and the Pythagorean tradition, focusing on their Neoplatonic reception. He is also the author of a commentary on Porphyry’s Life of Pythagoras (Athens 2001), of which an updated English transaltion is being prepared. Since 2004 he has been contributing regularly to the Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques (ed. R. Goulet, Paris: CNRS Editions). Forthcoming book: Under the Shadow of Pythagoras: Contributions to an ‘Archaeology’ of the Pythagorean Tradition (in French, 2014). He is currently directing a program entitled “Revisiting Monotheisms” at the Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes, and co-editing the Acts of an international research project on Ancient Mysticism: Greek, Jewish and Christian (Paris: Champion, 2013).
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