Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257C-279C, with ‘Syrianus’
introduction to hermogenes on styles
$352.53
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2025
Summary
Hermias on Plato’s Phaedrus: The Art of Writing and Platonic Literacy
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 He…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350363762 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350363766 |
| Series: | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Author: | Michael Share, Dirk Baltzly |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 160mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Michael Share
Dirk Baltzly is Professor of Philosophy and Head of Discipline for Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is co-editor of Pleasure and Power, Virtues and Vices: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy (2001).
Michael Share is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania, Australia.
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