Michael Share, Dirk Baltzly

Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257c-279c, with 'Syrianus'

Introduction to Hermogenes on Styles
Herausgeber: Sorabji, Richard; Griffin, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350363779
• ISBN-10: 1350363774
• Artikelnr.: 75923672

Autorenporträt

Michael Share is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

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