This volume explores the tremendous influence of Plato's Phaedrus
on the philosophical, religious, scientific and literary
discussions in the West. Ranging from Plato's first readers, over
the Church Fathers and the Platonic commentators, to Byzantine and
Renaissance thinkers, the papers collected here introduce the
reader to the first two millennia of the dialogue's reception
history. Thirteen contributions by both junior and established
scholars study the engagement with the Phaedrus by such major
figures as Aristotle, Galen, Origen, Clemens of Alexandria,
Plotinus, Augustine, Proclus, Psellus, Ficino, Erasmus, and many
others. Together, they cover the wide range of topics discussed in
the dialogue: the value of myth and allegory, religion and
theology, love and beauty, the soul and its immortality, teaching
and learning, metaphysics and epistemology, rhetoric and dialectic,
as well as the role and the limits of writing. By placing the
dialogue in this broad perspective, the volume will appeal to
readers interested in the Phaedrus itself, as well as to
classicists, literary theorists, and historians of philosophy,
science and religion concerned with the dialogue's reception
history and its main protagonists.
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