The Reception of Plato’s ›Phaedrus‹ from Antiquity to the Renaissance /

The Reception of Plato’s ›Phaedrus‹ from Antiquity to the Renaissance / / ed. by Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d'Hoine, Marc-Antoine Gavray.

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 h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Aerts, Saskia,
Claessens, Guy,
Fortier, Simon,
Gavray, Marc-Antoine,
Golitsis, Pantelis,
Karamanolis, George,
Michalewski, Alexandra,
Moreschini, Claudio,
Stern-Gillet, Suzanne,
Tieleman, Teun,
Van Riel, Gerd,
Zaks, Nicolas,
d’Hoine, Pieter,
HerausgeberIn:
Delcomminette, Sylvain,
Gavray, Marc-Antoine,
d'Hoine, Pieter,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 384
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • The influence of Plato’s Phaedrus on Aristotle’s Rhetoric
  • Galen’s Self-Understanding and the Platonic Phaedrus
  • The Causality of the Self-Moving Soul: Platonic Responses to the Objections of De Anima I 3
  • Beauty and Recollection: from the Phaedrus to the Enneads
  • The Phaedrus as Testimony of a Theology of the Gentiles according to the School of Alexandria
  • The Reception of Plato’s Phaedrus in Early Christianity
  • Echoes of the Phaedrus in Augustine’s Discussion with Porphyry
  • Plato’s Phaedrus as a Manual for Neoplatonic Hermeneutics: The Case of the Anonymous Prolegomena to Plato’s Philosophy
  • Plato’s Phaedrus as a Manual for Neoplatonic Hermeneutics: Inspired Poetry and Allegory in Proclus
  • How to Lead Souls to Beauty: Hermias on the Unity of the Phaedrus
  • Proclus on the Climax of the Phaedrus (247c6–d1)
  • Michael Psellos’ Exegesis of the Expedition of Gods and the Chariot Flight of the Soul
  • The Phaedrus in the Renaissance: Poison or Remedy?
  • Bibliography
  • Index locorum
  • Index nominum

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