Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257C-279C, with Syrianus by Mich... - 9781350363762

Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257C-279C, with SyrianusIntroduction to Hermogenes on Styles\nAuthor(s): Michael Share, Dirk Baltzly\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350363762, 978-1350363762\nSynopsis\nThis 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 attributeprobably mistakenlyto Hermias' teacher Syrianus. \n\nBaltzly and Share discuss the Introductions authorship and its relation to the genuine commentaries of Syrianus on the rhetorical treatises of Hermogenes. They illuminate the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric in the Neoplatonic schools, and provide a novel explanation of Neoplato.