Olympiodorus: Commentary on Platos Gorgias
Olympiodorus: Commentary on Platos Gorgias

Author: Robin Jackson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9004321039

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This book provides a translation of the only surving ancient commentary on Plato's Goroias, written by the Alexandrian Platonist Olympiodorus in the sixth century A.D. There are substantial notes on the commentary, which assist the reader to understand the context of Olympiodorus' Platonism, the choices available to him as an interpreter, and the special characteristics of his interpretation. A full introduction tackles the issues of greatest interest that arise from the work, including the author's mission as a Hellenist resisting Christian attacks on his discipline. Indices are provided. The authors show that there is much more of value in this commentary than has often been supposed, and that the differences between Olympiodorus' approach and those of modern commentators are often illuminating.

Commentary on Plato's Gorgias
Commentary on Plato's Gorgias

Author: Olympiodorus (the Younger, of Alexandria)

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9789004109728

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This is a modern, annotated translation of antiquity's only extant commentary on Plato's moral and political dialogue "Gorgias," in which the author defends ancient Greek philosophy and culture at a time when Christianity has almost replaced it. The first translation into any modern language of a central work in Platonic studies is accompanied by annotations which guide the reader in understanding the obscurities of the text, an introduction to the main issues raised by it, and a bibliography of the modern literature.

Olympiodorus of Alexandria
Olympiodorus of Alexandria

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9004466703

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This is the first collected volume dedicated to Olympiodorus of Alexandria, the last pagan Platonic philosopher at the end of antiquity.

Plato's Gorgias
Plato's Gorgias

Author: J. Clerk Shaw

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-05-30

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1108492215

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This Critical Guide offers detailed analysis of all parts of Plato's Gorgias, together with diverse perspectives on its advocacy of a philosophical, just life as against a life of rhetoric and injustice.

Philosophy as Agôn
Philosophy as Agôn

Author: Robert Metcalf

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0810137992

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In Philosophy as Agôn: A Study of Plato's Gorgias and Related Texts, Robert Metcalf offers a fresh interpretation of Plato's dialogues as dramatic texts whose philosophy is not so much a matter of doctrine as it is a dynamic, nondogmatic, and open-ended practice of engaging others in agonistic dialogue. Metcalf challenges prevailing interpretations according to which the agôn (contest or struggle) between the interlocutors in the dialogues is inessential to Plato's philosophical purpose, or simply a reflection of the cultural background of ancient Greek life. Instead, he argues that Plato understands philosophy as essentially agonistic—involving the adversarial engagement of others in dialogue such that one's integrity is put to the test through this engagement, and where the agôn is structured so as to draw adversaries together in agreement about the matters at issue, though that agreement is always open to future contest. Based on a careful reading of the Gorgias and related Socratic dialogues, such as Apology and Theaetetus, Metcalf contends that agôn is indispensable to the critique of prevailing opinions, to the transformation of the interlocutor through shame-inducing refutation, and to philosophy as a lifelong training (askêsis) of oneself in relation to others.

Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Part 2, Proclus on the World Soul
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Part 2, Proclus on the World Soul

Author: Proclus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-12-03

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 1139482998

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In the present volume Proclus describes the 'creation' of the soul that animates the entire universe. This is not a literal creation, for Proclus argues that Plato means only to convey the eternal dependence of the World Soul upon higher causes. In his exegesis of Plato's text, Proclus addresses a range of issues in Pythagorean harmonic theory, as well as questions about the way in which the World Soul knows both forms and the visible reality that comprises its body. This part of Proclus' Commentary is particularly responsive to the interpretive tradition that precedes it. As a result, this volume is especially significant for the study of the Platonic tradition from the earliest commentators onwards.

Collected Papers (1962-1999)
Collected Papers (1962-1999)

Author: Tarán

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-04

Total Pages: 733

ISBN-13: 9004453288

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This book consists in a reprint of papers dealing mostly with Grecoroman philosophy, ranging from the 5th century BC to the 6th century AD, and concerned mainly with the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Early Academy, the Platonic and Aristotelian later traditions.

Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity
Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity

Author: Cinzia Arruzza

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-11-21

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9004324623

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Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity is a collection of essays examining ancient philosophers' reflections on the connection between political power and philosophy. The ancient Greeks both invented political philosophy and were the first to conceptualize the implicit tension between political activity and the contemplative life as found in ideal political institutions and under conditions of repressive rule. These essays examine discussions of these issues within a wide variety of the major schools of antiquity from both interpretive and analytical perspectives. While providing novel approaches to ancient philosophical texts, this volume attests to the importance of political reflection, deliberation, and resistance for ancient thought, and to the enduring strength and relevance of these reflections for contemporary debates within political philosophy.

Christian Reading
Christian Reading

Author: Blossom Stefaniw

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0520971922

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Christian Reading shifts the assumption that study of the Bible must be about the content of the Bible or aimed at confessional projects of religious instruction. Blossom Stefaniw focuses on the lesson transcripts from the Tura papyri, which reveal verbatim oral classroom discourse, to show how biblical texts were used as an exhibition space for the traditional canon of general knowledge about the world. Stefaniw demonstrates that the work of Didymus the Blind in the lessons reflected in the Tura papyri was similar to that of other grammarians in late antiquity: articulating the students’ place in time, their position in the world, and their connection to their heritage. But whereas other grammarians used revered texts like Homer and Menander, Didymus curated the cultural patrimony using biblical texts: namely, the Psalms and Ecclesiastes. By examining this routine epistemological and pedagogical work carried out through the Bible, Christian Reading generates a new model of the relationship of Christian scholarship to the pagan past.

Plato’s Gorgias: Speech, Soul and Politics
Plato’s Gorgias: Speech, Soul and Politics

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-06-13

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9004701877

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In the Gorgias Plato offers a synthesis of what he thinks about the bitter conflict between philosophical and non-philosophical approaches to one’s responsibilities in private and public life. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of this historically and conceptually rich canvas by shedding light on its main topics: speech in its philosophical and non-philosophical forms, psychology in relation to virtuous life, and politics which charges the two former topics with high stakes that call for personal choices.