Gemma Platonica. On Heinrich Dörrie's Philological Platonism

The text is a review of Heinrich Dörrie's "Der Platonismus in der Antike" ("Platonism in Antiquity"), a monumental eight-volume editorial series published since 1987, encompassing various textual witnesses to ancient Platonic culture. I elaborate on the usefulness of the series as a research tool, on its most important theoretical assumptions and on its criticism, expressed particularly by Thomas Alexander Szlezák and Werner Beierwaltes