Benedetto Neola

Postdoc

Name: Dr. B. Neola
Telephone: +31 71 527 2727
E-mail: b.neola@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Benedetto Neola is a researcher at the Centre for the Arts in Society. Dr. Neola earned his BA in Classics and his MA in Classical Philology from the University of Naples Federico II. He holds a PhD in "Filosofia antica, tardo-antica, medievale e umanistica" and in "Philosophie," which he completed through a joint supervision between the University of Salerno (RAMUS) and Sorbonne Université (Paris IV, Centre Léon Robin). After a two-year von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Institut für Religionswissenschaft), which included a visitorship at Oxford University (Faculty of Theology and Religion), he is now a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University (LUCAS). His current research examines the relationship between Neoplatonic doctrines of the soul and fourth-century Christological models. Dr. Neola’s research centers on Neoplatonism and Patristics, with particular focus on the doctrine of the soul, the interplay between transcendence and immanence, theology, exegesis, rituals, and ontological systems. In addition to publishing articles in international journals, he is the author of Il Platonismo di Ermia di Alessandria. Uno studio sugli In Platonis Phaedrum Scholia (Napoli, Loffredo, 2022) and Nemesio. L'uomo (Brescia, Morcelliana, 2024).

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Fields of interest

Late antiquity
Neoplatonism
Iamblichus
Proclus
Hermias of Alexandria
Patristics
Eusebius of Caesarea
Cyril of Alexandria
Theological and metaphysical systems
Doctrine of soul
Christologies
Exegesis
Ritual

Granta and awards

Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2024-2026: University of Leiden
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022-2024: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Award AIST (International Society for Late Antique Studies), 2022: badge of honor for the PhD thesis on Hermias of Alexandria
Research Grant, 2021: Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
Award ‘Happy Birthday Federico II’, 2016: for the excellence of the cursus studiorum in "Classics"

Selected publications

Books:
B. Neola, Nemesio di Emesa. L’uomo. A cura di Benedetto Neola, Editrice Morcelliana (Series: ‘Letteratura cristiana antica’), Brescia 2024.
B. Neola, Il Platonismo di Ermia di Alessandria. Uno studio sugli In Platonis Phaedrum Scholia. Prefazione di Claudio Moreschini, Paolo Loffredo Editore (Series: ‘Philosophike Skepsis. Collana di Testi e Studi di filosofia antica’), Napoli 2022.

Articles:
B. Neola, Some Remarks on the Isagogical Character of Late Antique Thought: The Veil of Moses and Socrates, «Archivio di Storia della Cultura», XXXVII (2024), pp. 33-57.
B. Neola, “Pure Souls as Functional Angels: Chaldean Oracles fr. 138 Reconsidered”, «Phronesis», 69 (2024), pp. 158-181.
B. Neola, “Divine Sending and Ontological Models in Late Antiquity”, «Studia graeco-arabica», 13 (2023), pp. 25-48.
B. Neola, “Dialogo tra Platonismo e Cristianesimo in età tardoantica: il caso di Cirillo ed Ermia di Alessandria”, «Archivio di Storia della Cultura», XXXIV (2021), pp. 3-29.
B. Neola, “Sulla gnoseologia neoplatonica: ovvero sull’integrazione dell’articolazione stoica e dell’universale aristotelico”, «Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica», CXIII (2021), 2, pp. 475-484.
B. Neola, “L’“uno” e l’“intelletto” dell’anima umana: ricezioni neoplatoniche del Fedro di Platone”, «Méthexis», 33, 1 (2021), pp. 197-222.
B. Neola, “La testimonianza di Ermia Alessandrino per una nuova interpretazione di Fedro 246a6-7”, «Koinonia», 43 (2019), pp. 181-203.

Chapters in Volumes and in Special Journal Issues:
B. Neola, “La triade dans le champ de l’âme : la structure triadique dans la psychologie de Jamblique et la réception de la tripartition platonicienne de l’âme humaine”, «Chora», Triades et Trinités. Structures ontologiques et cognitives dans la pensée tardo-antique et médiévale. Numéro double coordonné par Anca Vasiliu, REAM, 21-22, 2023-2024, pp. 129-150.
B. Neola, “L’être humain entre ontologie et gnoséologie de l’image”, in A. Vasiliu – E. Grasso (éds.), Platon et la pensée de l’image, Vrin Éditions, Paris 2023, pp. 179-194.
B. Neola, “Semantizzazione filosofica: la ricezione di due endiadi platoniche nel tardo Platonismo”, in A. Pacilio – M.A. Pignatone (a cura di), Echi del mondo antico, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Press (Series ‘Costellazioni’), Napoli 2023, pp. 211-230.
B. Neola, “‘Upper’ Mereology of Human Soul and Salvation according to Hermias of Alexandria”, «Vox Patrum» 82 (2022), pp. 31–52.

Postdoc

Faculty of Humanities
Centre for the Arts in Society
Griekse T&C

Work address

Arsenaal
Arsenaalstraat 1
2311 CT Leiden
Room number B2.01

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