Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. The influence of Plato’s Phaedrus on Aristotle’s Rhetoric 9
5. Galen’s Self-Understanding and the Platonic Phaedrus 25
6. The Causality of the Self-Moving Soul: Platonic Responses to the Objections of De Anima I 3 41
7. Beauty and Recollection: from the Phaedrus to the Enneads 61
8. The Phaedrus as Testimony of a Theology of the Gentiles according to the School of Alexandria 87
9. The Reception of Plato’s Phaedrus in Early Christianity 103
10. Echoes of the Phaedrus in Augustine’s Discussion with Porphyry 119
11. Plato’s Phaedrus as a Manual for Neoplatonic Hermeneutics: The Case of the Anonymous Prolegomena to Plato’s Philosophy 131
12. Plato’s Phaedrus as a Manual for Neoplatonic Hermeneutics: Inspired Poetry and Allegory in Proclus 153
13. How to Lead Souls to Beauty: Hermias on the Unity of the Phaedrus 173
14. Proclus on the Climax of the Phaedrus (247c6–d1) 199
15. Michael Psellos’ Exegesis of the Expedition of Gods and the Chariot Flight of the Soul 219
16. The Phaedrus in the Renaissance: Poison or Remedy? 229
17. Bibliography 249
18. Index locorum 265
19. Index nominum 283