Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257D-279C, with Syrianus

This third and final volume concludes Hermias'' commentary on Plato''s Phaedrus . Here, Plato delivers a celebrated critique of writing, and its relationship to orality. Hermias follows him, and adds a general account of good writing. In addition, this volume offers the first English translation of the brief Introduction to Hermogenes'' On Styles , which manuscripts attribute-probably mistakenly-to Hermias'' teacher Syrianus. Baltzly and Share discuss the Introduction ''s authorship and its relation to the genuine commentaries of Syrianus on the rhetorical treatises of Hermogenes. They illuminate the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric in the Neoplatonic schools, and provide a novel explanation of Neoplatonic commentaries as performances of Platonic literacy in ancient elite education. This translation offers novel evidence of interest for students of ancient philosophy, rhetorical education, and literature more broadly. It is accompanied by explanatory notes, an introduction, and scholarly apparatus, including indices, glossaries, and bibliography.>

Préface
A translation of Hermias' lecture notes on Syrianus' seminar on Plato's Phaedrus, accompanied by extensive commentary notes, introduction and indexes.

Auteur
Michael Share is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania, Australia. Dirk Baltzly is Professor of Philosophy and Head of Discipline for Philosophy & Gender Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is co-editor (with Harold Tarrant) of Pleasure and Power, Virtues and Vices: essays in ancient moral philosophy (2001).

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This third and final volume concludes Hermias' commentary on Plato's Phaedrus. Here, Plato delivers a celebrated critique of writing, and its relationship to orality. Hermias follows him, and adds a general account of good writing. In addition, this volume offers the first English translation of the brief Introduction to Hermogenes' On Styles, which manuscripts attribute-probably mistakenly-to Hermias' teacher Syrianus.

Baltzly and Share discuss the Introduction's authorship and its relation to the genuine commentaries of Syrianus on the rhetorical treatises of Hermogenes. They illuminate the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric in the Neoplatonic schools, and provide a novel explanation of Neoplatonic commentaries as performances of Platonic literacy in ancient elite education.

This translation offers novel evidence of interest for students of ancient philosophy, rhetorical education, and literature more broadly. It is accompanied by explanatory notes, an introduction, and scholarly apparatus, including indices, glossaries, and bibliography.

Contenu

Acknowledgements Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257C-279C Conventions Abbreviations Introduction Departures from Lucarini and Moreschini's Text Translation Notes Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Subject Index 'Syrianus': Introduction to Hermogenes on Styles Conventions Abbreviations Introduction Translation Notes Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek- English Index Subject Index