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  • Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 245E?257C

    Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 245E?257C by Share, Michael; Baltzly, Dirk;

    Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 30 May 2024
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350351646
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages256 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Language English
    • 591

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    Long description:

    This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus' seminar on Plato's Phaedrus, one of the world's most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love. It is the only Neoplatonic commentary on Plato's Phaedrus to have survived in its entirety. Further interest comes from the recorded interventions by Syrianus' pupils - including those by Proclus, his eventual successor as head of the Athenian school, who went on to teach Hermias' father, Ammonius.

    The second of two volumes of Hermias' commentary, the chapters translated here begin with a discussion of how the discarnate soul is visualised as a winged chariot team whose charioteer may gain some glimpse of beauty itself, which can explain subsequent erotic longing. This volume provides a translation is accompanied by explanatory notes, an introduction detailing the significance and context of the treatise and a scholarly apparatus including multiple indexes, glossaries and a bibliography.

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    Table of Contents:

    Conventions
    Abbreviations

    Introduction

    1. The Phaedrus' Theological Centre of Gravity
    2. Hermias' Reading Strategies
    3. Competing Theotaxonomies for the Phaedrus?

    Departures from Lucarini and Moreschini's Text
    Translation

    Notes
    Bibliography
    English-Greek Glossary
    Greek-English Index
    Subject Index

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