The Reception of Plato’s ›Phaedrus‹ from Antiquity to the RenaissanceSylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d'Hoine, Marc-Antoine Gavray 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. |
Contents
Alexandra Michalewski | |
Suzanne SternGillet | |
Claudio Moreschini | |
The Fall and the Wings of the Soul | |
George Karamanolis | |
Gerd Van Riel | |
The Lesson of the Phaedrus | |
The | |
Lives of the Soul Poetic Forms | |
The Way of Inspiration | |
Homer Against Stesichorus | |
Coping with the Myth | |
Conclusion | |
Hermias on the Unity of the Phaedrus | |
The Phaedrus | |
Pieter dHoine | |
The Organic Imagery of Platos Phaedrus | |
Speech as a Living Being and the skopos of Platos Dialogues | |
The Divisions of Platos Dialogues | |
The Dialogue as a Literary Microcosm | |
The Components of the Dialogue | |
Platos Justification of Philosophical Writing | |
Conclusions | |
Inspired Poetry and Allegory in Proclus | |
Poetic Inspiration in the Phaedrus | |
Beauty of Every Kind | |
Leader of Souls to Beauty | |
Souls Reversion upon Itself | |
The Ascent to Divine Beauty | |
Proclus on the Climax of the Phaedrus 247c6d1 | |
Pantelis Golitsis | |
Druids Games and A Critique of Language | |
Bibliography | |
Index locorum | |
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