Aither is a double-blind peer review, Open Access online academic journal. It is indexed at ERIH+ and Scopus. It is published by the Faculty of Arts of the Palacký University in Olomouc in cooperation with the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It comes out twice a year. Every second issue is international and contains foreign-language articles (mainly in English, but also in German and French). The journal is registered under the number ISSN 1803-7860.
Aither 2/2009:7-13 
Aither 2/2009:79-107 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.012
The article is aimed at the philosophical interpretation of Isocrates' work Antidosis. It consists of six sections. First, Antidosis is briefly introduced to readers with its intertextual links to earlier works of Isocrates and its parallels with Plato's Apology. At the same time the author notes Isocrates' linking with sofists previously refused by him after the fashion of his teacher Gorgias.The second section is devoted to Gorgias. It is briefly summarizing the author's earlier monograph, which contains an extensive interpretation of Gorgias' philosophy of non-being. Furthermore, the author reports its interpretation of Gorgias logoplastics...
Aither 2/2009:109-127 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.013
In Stromata V,73,2 Clement of Alexandria outlines an allegorical exegesis of three days of Abraham's journey to the mountain in the land of Moriah (Gen 22,3-4). This exegesis seems to reflect the Platonist epistemological method known as via eminentiae. In the first part of the article, the method is introduced in its original philosophical context as provided by Alcinoos' Didaskalikos and against the background of his main "Platonic" sources, viz. Diotima's speech in Plato's Symposium and the epistemological passage in the Seventh letter. In the second part, Clement's exegesis of Abraham's journey is presented as a Christian interpretation of via...
Aither 2/2009:129-148 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.014
This article analyzes Plato's philosophical dialogue Σσμπόσιον as a rich source of inspiration not only for philosophers, but also for other men of letters, who considered Σσμπόσιον primarily as a constitutive work of a new literary genre, the so-called symposial dialogue. Examining the Saturnalia, a work composed by the noble Roman magistrate named Macrobius in the second third of the 5th century AD, as an example of educational dialogue, the author tries to demonstrate the particular ways of drawing inspiration from Plato's dialogue as well as other symposial...
Aither 2/2009:37-77 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.011
The article deals with some of Heraclitus fragments having more interpretational possibilities. In several cases the reading of the manuscripts is preferred before the "emendations", so especially ὁτέῃ κυβερνῆσαι before ὁτέη ἐκυβέρνησε in B 41, εἰδέναι before εἶναι in B 50, ὲρεῖν before ἔριν, χρεώμενα before χρεών...
Aither 2/2009:237-239 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.016
Aither 2/2009:15-35 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.010
Aither 2/2009:149-235 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2009.015
