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

Published by De Gruyter 2020

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

Edited by: Sylvain Delcomminette , Pieter d'Hoine and Marc-Antoine Gavray

Volume 384 in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110683936

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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 here introduce the reader to the first two millennia of the dialogue’s reception history. Thirteen contributions by both junior and established scholars study the engagement with the Phaedrus by such major figures as Aristotle, Galen, Origen, Clemens of Alexandria, Plotinus, Augustine, Proclus, Psellus, Ficino, Erasmus, and many others. Together, they cover the wide range of topics discussed in the dialogue: the value of myth and allegory, religion and theology, love and beauty, the soul and its immortality, teaching and learning, metaphysics and epistemology, rhetoric and dialectic, as well as the role and the limits of writing. By placing the dialogue in this broad perspective, the volume will appeal to readers interested in the Phaedrus itself, as well as to classicists, literary theorists, and historians of philosophy, science and religion concerned with the dialogue’s reception history and its main protagonists.

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S. Delcomminette, Université libre de Bruxelles, P. d'Hoine, KU Leuven, M.-A. Gavray, FRS-FNRS / ULiège, Liège, Belgium.

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"Overall, this volume offers many precious insights into the history of the interpretation of Plato’s Phaedrus and constitutes an extremely welcome addition to the history of Platonic studies and of the reception and afterlife of Platonism." Marco Donato in: BMCR 2021.04.06.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The influence of Plato’s Phaedrus on Aristotle’s Rhetoric Nicolas Zaks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Galen’s Self-Understanding and the Platonic Phaedrus Teun Tieleman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
The Causality of the Self-Moving Soul: Platonic Responses to the Objections of De Anima I 3 Alexandra Michalewski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Beauty and Recollection: from the Phaedrus to the Enneads Suzanne Stern-Gillet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
The Phaedrus as Testimony of a Theology of the Gentiles according to the School of Alexandria Claudio Moreschini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
The Reception of Plato’s Phaedrus in Early Christianity George Karamanolis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Echoes of the Phaedrus in Augustine’s Discussion with Porphyry Gerd Van Riel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Plato’s Phaedrus as a Manual for Neoplatonic Hermeneutics: The Case of the Anonymous Prolegomena to Plato’s Philosophy Pieter d’Hoine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Plato’s Phaedrus as a Manual for Neoplatonic Hermeneutics: Inspired Poetry and Allegory in Proclus Marc-Antoine Gavray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
How to Lead Souls to Beauty: Hermias on the Unity of the Phaedrus Saskia Aerts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Proclus on the Climax of the Phaedrus (247c6–d1) Simon Fortier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Michael Psellos’ Exegesis of the Expedition of Gods and the Chariot Flight of the Soul Pantelis Golitsis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
The Phaedrus in the Renaissance: Poison or Remedy? Guy Claessens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Index locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Index nominum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Classical studies, History of philosophy, and Literary theory.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 286
Illustrations
- Tables: 3
Keywords: Plato; Platonism; Soul; Rhetoric

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Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110683936

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Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110683639