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.

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Sylvain Delcomminette , Pieter d’Hoine and Marc-Antoine Gavray -- Introduction / Sylvain Delcomminette , Pieter d’Hoine and Marc-Antoine Gavray -- Aristote et le Phédon / Sylvain Delcomminette -- Strato of Lampsacus as a Reader of Plato’s Phaedo: His Critique of the Soul’s Immortality / Han Baltussen -- Le Phédon dans le Stoïcisme hellénistique et post-hellénistique / Francesca Alesse -- Sextus, the Number Two and the Phaedo / Lorenzo Corti -- Plutarch’s Reception of Plato’s Phaedo / Geert Roskam -- The Phaedo in Numenian Allegorical Interpretation / Harold Tarrant -- Plotin lecteur du Phédon: l’âme et la vie en IV 7 [2] 11 / Riccardo Chiaradonna -- Syrianus and the Phaedo / Pieter d’Hoine -- Damascius, Olympiodore et Proclus sur les attributs «divin» (θεῖον) et «intelligible» (νοητόν) en Phédon 80a10–b1 dans l’argument dit «de la similitude» / Alain Lernould -- From ‘Immortal’ to ‘Imperishable’: Damascius on the Final Argument in Plato’s Phaedo / Sebastian Gertz -- La théorie de l’âme-harmonie chez les commentateurs anciens / Franco Trabattoni -- «Nombreux sont les porteurs de thyrse, mais rares les Bacchants» / Bram Demulder and Gerd Van Riel -- Au terme d’une tradition: Simplicius, lecteur du Phédon / Marc-Antoine Gavray -- Bibliography / Sylvain Delcomminette , Pieter d’Hoine and Marc-Antoine Gavray -- Indexes / Sylvain Delcomminette , Pieter d’Hoine and Marc-Antoine Gavray.