Hermias: On Plato's Phaedrus

Title: Hermias: On Plato's Phaedrus
Creator: Tarrant, Harold A. S.; Baltzly, Dirk
Relation: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity p. 486-497
Relation: Brill's Companion to Classical Reception 13
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004355385_028
Publisher: Brill
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2018
Description: This article tackles the sole surviving ancient commentary on what was perhaps the second most important Platonic work, with special interest for the manner in which the ancients tackled the setting of Plato's dialogues, Socratic ignorance, Socratic eros, the central myth-like Palinode, and the question of oral as against written teaching.
Subject: classical studies; ancient philosophy; classical tradition & reception studies; philosophy; anicient philosophy; religious studies; religion in antiquity
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1472959
Identifier: uon:48958
Identifier: ISBN:9789004270695
Language: eng