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Title

The reception of Plato's Phaedrus from antiquity to the Renaissance / edited by Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d'Hoine and Marc-Antoine Gavray.

Publication

• Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2020]
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Delcomminette, Sylvain
• Hoine, Pieter d'
• Gavray, Marc-Antoine

Description

vi, 286 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume explores the tremendous influence of Plato's Phaedrus on the philosophical, religious, scientific and literary discussions in the West. Ranging from Plato's first readers, over the Church Fathers and the Platonic commentators, to Byzantine and Renaissance thinkers, the papers collected here introduce the reader to the first two millennia of the dialogue's reception history. Thirteen contributions by both junior and established scholars study the engagement with the Phaedrus by such major figures as Aristotle, Galen, Origen, Clemens of Alexandria, Plotinus, Augustine, Proclus, Psellus, Ficino, Erasmus, and many others. Together, they cover the wide range of topics discussed in the dialogue: the value of myth and allegory, religion and theology, love and beauty, the soul and its immortality, teaching and learning, metaphysics and epistemology, rhetoric and dialectic, as well as the role and the limits of writing. By placing the dialogue in this broad perspective, the volume will appeal to readers interested in the Phaedrus itself, as well as to classicists, literary theorists, and historians of philosophy, science and religion concerned with the dialogue's reception history and its main protagonists.

Series Statement

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 1616-0452 ; Band 384

Uniform Title

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 384.

Subject

• Plato
• Phaedrus (Plato)
• Philosophy, Ancient

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction -- The influence of Plato's Phaedrus on Aristotle's Rhetoric / Nicolas Zaks -- Galen's self-understanding and the Platonic Phaedrus / Teun Tieleman -- The causality of the self-moving soul: Platonic responses to the objections of De Anima I 3 / Alexandra Michalewski -- Beauty and recollection: from the Phaedrus to the Enneads / Suzanne Stern-Gillet -- The Phaedrus as testimony of a theology of the Gentiles according to the School of Alexandria / Claudio Moreschini -- The reception of Plato's Phaedrus in early Christianity / George Karamanolis -- Echoes of the Phaedrus in Augustine's discussion with Porphyry / Gerd Van Riel -- Plato's Phaedrus as a manual for neoplatonic hermeneutics: the case of the anonymous Prolegomena to Plato's philosophy / Pieter d'Hoine -- Plato's Phaedrus as a manual for neoplatonic hermeneutics: inspired poetry and allegory in Proclus / Marc-Antoine Gavray -- How to lead souls to beauty: Hermias on the unity of the Phaedrus / Saskia Aerts -- Proclus on the climax of the Phaedrus (247c6-d1) / Simon Fortier -- Michael Psellos' exegesis of the expedition of gods and the chariot flight of the soul / Pantelis Golitsis -- The Phaedrus in the Renaissance: poison or remedy? / Guy Claessens.

Call Number

JFE 22-667

ISBN

• 9783110683639
• 3110683636

LCCN

2020933299

OCLC

1130672467

Title

The reception of Plato's Phaedrus from antiquity to the Renaissance / edited by Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d'Hoine and Marc-Antoine Gavray.

Publisher

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 1616-0452 ; Band 384

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 384.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and indexes.

Added Author

Delcomminette, Sylvain, editor.

Hoine, Pieter d', editor, contributor.

Gavray, Marc-Antoine, editor, contributor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-667