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The Reception of Plato’s ›Phaedrus‹ from Antiquity to the Renaissance
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Edited by:
Sylvain Delcomminette
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
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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eBook published on:
July 6, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9783110683936
Hardcover published on:
July 6, 2020
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110683639
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Front matter:
6
Main content:
286
Tables:
3
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of Classical studies, History of philosophy, and Literary theory.
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