Olympiodorus of Alexandria : : exegete, teacher, platonic philosopher / / edited by Albert Joosse.

• Superior document: Philosophia Antiqua
• TeilnehmendeR: Joosse, Albert,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophia Antiqua
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)

"This is the first collected volume dedicated to the work of the 6th-century CE philosopher Olympiodorus of Alexandria. His Platonic commentaries are rare witnesses to ancient views on Plato's Socratic works. As a pagan, Olympiodorus entertained a complex relationship with his predominantly Christian surroundings. The contributors address his profile as a Platonic philosopher, the ways he did and did not adapt his teaching to his Christian audience, his reflections on philosophical exegesis and communication and his thinking on self-cognition. The volume as a whole helps us understand the development of Platonic philosophy at the end of antiquity"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Olympiodorus and Greco-Alexandrian Alchemy -- Chapter 3 The Life of Plato in Introductory Schemes: The Preface to Olympiodorus' Commentary on the First Alcibiades (in Alc. 1.1-3.2) -- Chapter 4 Olympiodorus on the Scale of Virtues -- Chapter 5 Olympiodorus' Notion of αἴσθησις and Its Historical Context -- Chapter 6 The Virtue of Double Ignorance in Olympiodorus -- Chapter 7 Olympiodorus' View of Civic Self-Knowledge -- Chapter 8 The Neoplatonists Hermias and Olympiodorus on Plato's Theory of Rhetoric -- Chapter 9 Reconciling Philosophy with Poetry: Olympiodorus' Interpretation of the Gorgias Myth -- Chapter 10 Olympiodorus on Drama -- Chapter 11 Special Kinds of Platonic Discourse: Does Olympiodorus Have a New Approach? -- Chapter 12 Olympiodorus, Christianity, and Metensomatosis -- Index Locorum -- General Index.