Olympiodorus of Alexandria

Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46669-2 (ISBN)

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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.

This is the first collected volume dedicated to the work of the 6th-century CE philosopher Olympiodorus of Alexandria. His Platonic commentaries are rare witnesses to ancient views on Plato’s Socratic works. As a pagan, Olympiodorus entertained a complex relationship with his predominantly Christian surroundings. The contributors address his profile as a Platonic philosopher, the ways he did and did not adapt his teaching to his Christian audience, his reflections on philosophical exegesis and communication and his thinking on self-cognition. The volume as a whole helps us understand the development of Platonic philosophy at the end of antiquity.

Albert Joosse, PhD, is lecturer and researcher at the universities of Groningen and Utrecht. His work focuses on Plato and the Platonic tradition.

Acknowledgements

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Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Albert Joosse

2 Olympiodorus and Greco-Alexandrian Alchemy

Cristina Viano

3 The Life of Plato in Introductory Schemes: The Preface to Olympiodorus’ Commentary on the First Alcibiades (in Alc 1.1–3.2)

Anna Motta

4 Olympiodorus on the Scale of Virtues

Michael J. Griffin

5 Olympiodorus’ Notion of αἴσθησις and Its Historical Context

Péter Lautner

6 The Virtue of Double Ignorance in Olympiodorus

Danielle A. Layne

7 Olympiodorus’ View of Civic Self-Knowledge

Albert Joosse

8 The Neoplatonists Hermias and Olympiodorus on Plato’s Theory of Rhetoric

Bettina Bohle

9 Reconciling Philosophy with Poetry: Olympiodorus’ Interpretation of the Gorgias Myth

François Renaud

10 Olympiodorus on Drama

Anne Sheppard

11 Special Kinds of Platonic Discourse: Does Olympiodorus Have a New Approach?

Harold Tarrant

12 Olympiodorus, Christianity, and Metensomatosis

Simon Fortier

Index Locorum

General Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Philosophia Antiqua ; 159
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	597 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-46669-X / 900446669X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-46669-2 / 9789004466692
Zustand	Neuware