Ancient readings of Plato's Phaedo / edited by Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d'Hoine, Marc-Antoine Gavray ; contributors, Francesca Alesse [and thirteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delcomminette, Sylvain, editor.

Hoine, Pieter d', editor.

Gavray, Marc-Antoine, editor.

Alesse, Francesca, contributor.

Series:

Philosophia antiqua ; Volume 140.

Philosophia Antiqua, 0079-1687 ; Volume 140

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Phaedo.

Plato.

Immortality (Philosophy).

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28954-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004289543 DOI