Introduction -- Prudentian personification. Consecratus manu : men forming gods forming men ; How to fight like a girl : Christianizing personification in the Psychomachia -- Neoplatonic personification. Ex uno omnia : Plato's forms and daemons ; Oh, nurse! The Boethian daemon -…
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This volume provides the first critical edition of Boethius' De divisione. The importance of Boethius' treatise is twofold: it was widely read in the medieval schools, and it preserves the only known vestiges of Porphyry's commentary on Plato's Sophist and of Andronicus' treatis…
"The book shows that the neoplatonic background of Boethius' musical theory is the essential key to a comprehensive understanding of its purpose and its general composition."--Amazon.com.