Hermias: on Plato Phaedrus 257C-279C, with 'Syrianus' : Introduction to Hermogenes on Styles (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)

Share, Michael/ Baltzly, Dirk

Bloomsbury Academic（2025/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350363762
• DDC分類 184

Full Description

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.

Contents

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