Commentaries on Plato
This volume contains analysis and commentary on the 'Phaedrus', which is explicated as a meditation on 'beauty in all its forms' and a work of theology. The commentary on the 'Ion' explores a poetics of divine inspiration that leads to the Neoplatonist portrayal of the soul as a rhapsode whose song is an ascent into the mind of God.
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- Full title :Commentaries on Plato. / Marsilio Ficino ; edited and translated by Michael J.B. Allen.
Summary
This volume contains analysis and commentary on the 'Phaedrus', which is explicated as a meditation on 'beauty in all its forms' and a work of theology. The commentary on the 'Ion' explores a poetics of divine inspiration that leads to the Neoplatonist portrayal of the soul as a rhapsode whose song is an ascent into the mind of God.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:lix, 269 pages ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674031197, 0674031199
- oclc:ocn813175424
- LC Classification:B395
- Dewey Decimal:184
Table of Contents
Introduction -- The mythical hymn of the Phaedrus -- Commentary on the Phaedrus -- Comment on and chapter summaries of the Phaedrus -- Introduction to the Ion -- Appendix 1. Heaven and world -- Appendix 2. The Prague manuscript -- Appendix 3. Ficino's notes on MS Riccardianus.
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