Research Catalog

Title

Imperial Plato : Albinus, Maximus, Apuleius : text and translation, with an introduction and commentary / Ryan C. Fowler.

Publication

• Las Vegas : Parmenides Publishing, 2016.
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Fowler, Ryan C.
• Albinus.
• Maximus, of Tyre, active 2nd century.
• Apuleius.

Description

x, 362 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Imperial Plato presents new translations of three introductions to Plato's thought from the second half of the second century CE: the Introduction to Plato by Albinus of Smyrna, Dissertation 11 of Maximus of Tyre, and On Plato and his Teaching by Apuleius of Madaurus. These three presentations of Plato's ideas-one a Greek dialectic introduction with a suggested reading order for Plato's dialogues, another a Greek speech in the sophistic style of the time, and one a lengthy doxological study in Latin-are examples by three distinct authors using divergent methods of the assorted ways in which Plato and Platonism were understood and discussed during the revival of Hellenism and Greek Philosophy, and the period of the Roman Empire often referred to as the Second Sophistic. --

Subject

• Plato
• Albinus
• Maximus, of Tyre, active 2nd century
• Apuleius
• De Platone (Apuleius)
• Dissertationes (Maximus, of Tyre)
• Prologos (Albinus)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Greek and the Latin ; text in English, Greek and Latin.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I Albinus: Introduction to the Book of Plato -- Overview and Synopsis -- Translation -- Manuscript Images -- Greek Text -- pt. II Maximus of Tyre: Dissertation 11, What Is God According to Plato? -- Overview and Synopsis -- Translation -- Manuscript Images -- Greek Text -- pt. III Apuleius: On Plato and His Doctrine -- Overview and Synopsis -- Translation -- Manuscript Images -- Latin Text.

ISBN

• 9781930972872
• 1930972873
• 9781930972889 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016009815

OCLC

• 950724643
• SCSB-11151142

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library