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23 produkter
Last Days of Socrates
Av Plato, Harold Tarrant
Häftad, 2003
155 kr
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Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also …
Scepticism or Platonism?
The Philosophy of the Fourth Academy
Häftad, 2007
653 kr
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In the first half of the first century BC the Academy of Athens broke up in disarray. From the wreckage of the semi-sceptical school there arose the new dogmatic philosophy of Antiochus, synthesized from Stoicism and Platonism, and the hardline Pyrrhonist scepticism of Aenesidemus. With his …
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 1, Book 1: Proclus on the Socratic State and Atlantis
Häftad, 2011
732 kr
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Proclus' Commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. This edition offers the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on …
The Platonic Alcibiades I
The Dialogue and its Ancient Reception
Av François Renaud, Harold Tarrant
Inbunden, 2015
1628 kr
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Although it was influential for several hundred years after it first appeared, doubts about the authenticity of the Platonic Alcibiades I have unnecessarily impeded its interpretation ever since. It positions itself firmly within the Platonic and Socratic traditions, and should therefore be …
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 1, Book 1: Proclus on the Socratic State and Atlantis
Inbunden, 2007
2040 kr
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Proclus' Commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. This edition offers the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on …
Recollecting Plato's "Meno"
Inbunden, 2005
2266 kr
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Plato's Meno is a dynamic and entertaining examination of the nature and origin of the kind of excellence displayed by successful Greek leaders. That such excellence existed was difficult to deny, but people expected to show it often disappointed, and others expected to know about it seemed …
Reading Plato in Antiquity
Av Harold Tarrant, Dirk Baltzly
Inbunden, 2006
2266 kr
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This important collection of original essays is the first to concentrate at length on how the ancients responded to the challenge of reading and interpreting Plato, primarily between 100 BC and AD, edited by Lloyd Gerson, University of Toronto; 600. It incorporates the fruits of recent research …
Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator
Av Harold Tarrant, Marguerite Johnson
Inbunden, 2012
2266 kr
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In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career. The contributors to this carefully focussed volume cover aspects of the background to the work; its arguments and the philosophical issues it …
Neoplatonic Socrates
Av Danielle A. Layne, Harold Tarrant
E-bok, 2014
1308 kr
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Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that would surprise many of his contemporaries, who excoriated the philosopher for corrupting youth. The problem of who Socrates "really" was-the true history of his activities and beliefs-has long been thought …
Neoplatonic Socrates
Av Danielle A. Layne, Harold Tarrant
Inbunden, 2014
1070 kr
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Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that would surprise many of his contemporaries, who excoriated the philosopher for corrupting youth. The problem of who Socrates "really" was-the true history of his activities and beliefs-has long been thought …
From the Old Academy to Later Neo-Platonism
Studies in the History of Platonic Thought
E-bok, 2024
3325 kr
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This volume collects a set of papers on ancient Platonism that span the nine centuries between Plato himself and his commentator Olympiodorus in the 6th century, many of them less easy to obtain. Much of the work is at the intersection of philosophy and literature, and a recurrent aim is to …
From the Old Academy to Later Neo-Platonism
Studies in the History of Platonic Thought
E-bok, 2024
3325 kr
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This volume collects a set of papers on ancient Platonism that span the nine centuries between Plato himself and his commentator Olympiodorus in the 6th century, many of them less easy to obtain. Much of the work is at the intersection of philosophy and literature, and a recurrent aim is to …
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 6, Book 5: Proclus on the Gods of Generation and the Creation of Humans
Inbunden, 2017
1529 kr
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Proclus' commentary on the dialogue Timaeus by Plato (d.347 BC), written in the fifth century AD, is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato …
The Platonic Alcibiades I
The Dialogue and its Ancient Reception
Av François Renaud, Harold Tarrant
Häftad, 2018
557 kr
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Although it was influential for several hundred years after it first appeared, doubts about the authenticity of the Platonic Alcibiades I have unnecessarily impeded its interpretation ever since. It positions itself firmly within the Platonic and Socratic traditions, and should therefore be …
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 6, Book 5: Proclus on the Gods of Generation and the Creation of Humans
Häftad, 2019
422 kr
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Proclus' commentary on the dialogue Timaeus by Plato (d.347 BC), written in the fifth century AD, is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato …
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 6, Book 5: Proclus on the Gods of Generation and the Creation of Humans
E-bok, 2017
408 kr
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Proclus'' commentary on the dialogue Timaeus by Plato (d.347 BC), written in the fifth century AD, is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato …
From the Old Academy to Later Neo-Platonism
Studies in the History of Platonic Thought
Inbunden, 2011
2886 kr
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This volume collects a set of papers on ancient Platonism that span the nine centuries between Plato himself and his commentator Olympiodorus in the 6th century, many of them less easy to obtain. Much of the work is at the intersection of philosophy and literature, and a recurrent aim is to …
Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator
Av Harold Tarrant, Harold Tarrant
Häftad, 2013
558 kr
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In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career. The contributors to this carefully focussed volume cover aspects of the background to the work; its arguments and the philosophical issues it …
Second Alcibiades: a Platonist Dialogue on Prayer and on Ignorance
A Platonist Dialogue on Prayer and on Ignorance
Häftad, 2023
538 kr
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Providing a challenging new interpretation of the Second Alcibiades from the Platonic corpus, this treatment sees the dialogue not only as a work of philosophic ethics, but also as one steeped in ancient literature, particularly Euripidean tragedy. The dialogue's philosophy is underpinned by an …
Reassessing Homer in the Platonic Tradition
Av Christina-Panagiota Manolea, François Renaud m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1775 kr
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Plato’s famous and infamous criticism of Homer was the climax of a series of attacks by early thinkers on the first and greatest Greek poet Homer. It triggers an even longer series of responses attempting either to justify further "the old quarrel between philosophy poetry" (Pl. Resp. 607b-c), or, …
The Making of the Platonic Corpus
Av Olga Alieva, Debra Nails m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1603 kr
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Olympiodorus: Commentary on Platos Gorgias
Introduction by Harold Tarrant
Av Robin Jackson, Harold Tarrant m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
3600 kr
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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 …
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity
Av Harold Tarrant, François Renaud m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
3714 kr
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as philosopher, as author, and more generally as a central figure in the intellectual heritage of Classical Greece, from his death in the fourth century …
