About the Author

Sebastian Gertz is Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at St John’s College, Oxford. He has worked as Assistant Editor with the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project at King’s College London, and completed his PhD thesis on the ancient commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 2010. It was published under the title Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism by Brill in 2011. His main area of research is Ancient Philosophy, and particularly Neoplatonism.