The Neoplatonic Socrates / / ed. by Harold Tarrant, Danielle A. Layne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Addey, Crystal,; Ambury, James M.,; Finamore, John F.,; Griffin, Michael,; Lawrence, Marilynn,; Layne, Danielle A.,; Manolea, Christina-Panagiota,; Renaud, François,; Roskam, Geert,; Tarrant, Harold,
• HerausgeberIn: Layne, Danielle A.,; Tarrant, Harold,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that would surprise many of his contemporaries, who excoriated the philosopher for corrupting youth. The problem of who Socrates "really" was-the true history of his activities and beliefs-has long been thought...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Socratic Love in Neoplatonism
• Chapter 2. Plutarch and Apuleius on Socrates' Daimonion
• Chapter 3. The Daimonion of Socrates: Daimones and Divination in Neoplatonism
• Chapter 4. Socrates in the Neoplatonic Psychology of Hermias
• Chapter 5. The Character of Socrates and the Good of Dialogue Form: Neoplatonic Hermeneutics
• Chapter 6. Hypostasizing Socrates
• Chapter 7. Socratic Character: Proclus on the Function of Erotic Intellect
• Chapter 8. The Elenctic Strategies of Socrates: The Alcibiades I and the Commentary of Olympiodorus
• Chapter 9. Akrasia and Enkrateia in Simplicius's Commentary on Epictetus's Encheiridion
• Chapter 10. The Many-Voiced Socrates: Neoplatonist Sensitivity to Socrates' Change of Register
• Conclusion
• Appendix: The Reception of Socrates in Late Antiquity: Authors, Texts, and Notable References
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• General Index
• Acknowledgments