The reception of Plato's Phaedrus from antiquity to the Renaissance /
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 c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2020]
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| Series: | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ;
Bd. 384. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The influence of Plato's Phaedrus on Aristotle's Rhetoric / Nicolas Zaks
- Galen's self-understanding and the Platonic Phaedrus / Teun Tieleman
- The causality of the self-moving soul: Platonic responses to the objections of De Anima I 3 / Alexandra Michalewski
- Beauty and recollection: from the Phaedrus to the Enneads / Suzanne Stern-Gillet
- The Phaedrus as testimony of a theology of the Gentiles according to the School of Alexandria / Claudio Moreschini
- The reception of Plato's Phaedrus in early Christianity / George Karamanolis
- Echoes of the Phaedrus in Augustine's discussion with Porphyry / Gerd Van Riel
- Plato's Phaedrus as a manual for neoplatonic hermeneutics: the case of the anonymous Prolegomena to Plato's philosophy / Pieter d'Hoine
- Plato's Phaedrus as a manual for neoplatonic hermeneutics: inspired poetry and allegory in Proclus / Marc-Antoine Gavray
- How to lead souls to beauty: Hermias on the unity of the Phaedrus / Saskia Aerts
- Proclus on the climax of the Phaedrus (247c6-d1) / Simon Fortier
- Michael Psellos' exegesis of the expedition of gods and the chariot flight of the soul / Pantelis Golitsis
- The Phaedrus in the Renaissance: poison or remedy? / Guy Claessens.