Special Kinds of Platonic Discourse: Does Olympiodorus have a new Approach?

Title: Special Kinds of Platonic Discourse: Does Olympiodorus have a new Approach?
Creator: Tarrant, Harold
Relation: Olympiodorus of Alexandria Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher p. 206-220
Relation: Philosophia Antiqua 159
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004466708_012
Publisher: Brill
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: The beginning of the Alcibiades commentary mentions four different ‘inspirations’ (enthousiasmoi) which are to be found in Plato’s dialogues. These passages of elevated discourse have in the past been interpreted in terms of the intellectual and/or ethical level at which these ‘inspirations’ operate. This chapter, however, explores the possibility that Olympiodorus is concerned rather with kinds of inspiring discourse that we meet in particular passages of Platonic works, explaining them in terms of different higher voices that Plato’s protagonists adopt. This is probably dependent on a reading of the Phaedrus, and marks an important shift in analyzing such passages compared to Olympiodorus’ predecessors.
Subject: olympiodorus; platonic works; Plato; Alcibiades
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1435186
Identifier: uon:39639
Identifier: ISBN:9789004466692
Language: eng