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Ancient readings of Plato's Phaedo / edited by Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d'Hoine, Marc-Antoine Gavray.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English, French Series: Philosophia Antiqua ; 140. | Philosophia Antiqua Online, ISBN: 9789004319752Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 364 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004289543
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 184 23
LOC classification:
  • B379 .A95 2015
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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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-335) and index.

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.

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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.

Seven contributions in French and 6 in English.

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