Ancient readings of Plato's Phaedo / / edited by Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d'Hoine, Marc-Antoine Gavray ; contributors, Francesca Alesse [and thirteen others].

• Superior document: Philosophia Antiqua, Volume 140
• TeilnehmendeR: Delcomminette, Sylvain,; Hoine, Pieter d',; Gavray, Marc-Antoine,; Alesse, Francesca,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophia antiqua ; Volume 140.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Front Matter /; Introduction /; Aristote et le Phédon /; Strato of Lampsacus as a Reader of Plato’s Phaedo: His Critique of the Soul’s Immortality /; Le Phédon dans le Stoïcisme hellénistique et post-hellénistique /; Sextus, the Number Two and the Phaedo /; Plutarch’s Reception of Plato’s Phaedo /; The Phaedo in Numenian Allegorical Interpretation /; Plotin lecteur du Phédon: l’âme et la vie en IV 7 [2] 11 /; Syrianus and the Phaedo /; Damascius, Olympiodore et Proclus sur les attributs «divin» (θεῖον) et «intelligible» (νοητόν) en Phédon 80a10–b1 dans l’argument dit «de la similitude» /; From ‘Immortal’ to ‘Imperishable’: Damascius on the Final Argument in Plato’s Phaedo /; La théorie de l’âme-harmonie chez les commentateurs anciens /; «Nombreux sont les porteurs de thyrse, mais rares les Bacchants» /; Au terme d’une tradition: Simplicius, lecteur du Phédon /; Bibliography /; Indexes /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004289542
• ISSN: 0079-1687
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d'Hoine, Marc-Antoine Gavray ; contributors, Francesca Alesse [and thirteen others].

Plato’s Phaedo has never failed to attract the attention of philosophers and scholars. Yet the history of its reception in Antiquity has been little studied. The present volume therefore proposes to examine not only the Platonic exegetical tradition surrounding this dialogue, which culminates in the commentaries of Damascius and Olympiodorus, but also its place in the reflections of the rival Peripatetic, Stoic, and Sceptical schools. This volume thus aims to shed light on the surviving commentaries and their sources, as well as on less familiar aspects of the history of the Phaedo ’s ancient reception. By doing so, it may help to clarify what ancient interpreters of Plato can and cannot offer their contemporary counterparts.