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Philostratus is one of the greatest examples of the vitality and
inventiveness of the Greek culture of his period, at once a one-man
summation of contemporary tastes and interests and a strikingly
individual re-inventor of the traditions in which he was steeped.
This Roman-era engagement with the already classical past set
important precedents for later understandings of classical art,
literature and culture. This volume examines the ways in which the
labyrinthine Corpus Philostrateum represents and interrogates the
nature of interpretation and the interpreting subject. Taking
'interpretation' broadly as the production of meaning from objects
that are considered to bear some less than obvious significance, it
examines the very different interpreter figures presented:
Apollonius of Tyana as interpreter of omens, dreams and art-works;
an unnamed Vinetender and the dead Protesilaus as interpreters of
heroes; and the sophist who emotively describes a gallery full of
paintings, depicting in the process both the techniques of educated
viewing and the various errors and illusions into which a viewer
can fall.
Two sophists on the history of sophistry. Flavius Philostratus,
known as “the Elder” or “the Athenian,” was born to a
distinguished family with close ties to Lesbos in the later second
century, and died around the middle of the third. A sophist who
studied at Athens and later lived in Rome, Philostratus provides in
Lives of the Sophists a treasury of information about notable
practitioners. His sketches of sophists in action paint a
fascinating picture of their predominant influence in the
educational, social, and political life of the Empire in his time.
He is almost certainly the author also of the Life of Apollonius of
Tyana (LCL 16, 17, 458) and Heroicus and Gymnasticus (LCL 521).
Eunapius (ca. 345–415) was born in Sardis but studied and spent
much of his life in Athens as a sophist and historian. His Lives of
Philosophers and Sophists covers figures of personal or
intellectual significance to him in the period from Plotinus (ca.
250) to Chrystanthus (ca. 380), including one remarkable woman,
Sosipatra, and then focuses on Iamblichus and his students. The
work’s underlying rationale combines personal devotion to
teachers and colleagues with a broader attempt to rehabilitate
Hellenic cultural icons against the rise of Christianity and the
influence of its representatives. This edition of Philostratus and
Eunapius thoroughly revises the original edition by Wilmer C.
Wright (1921) in light of modern scholarship.
Philostratus is one of the greatest examples of the vitality and
inventiveness of the Greek culture of his period, at once a one-man
summation of contemporary tastes and interests and a strikingly
individual re-inventor of the traditions in which he was steeped.
This Roman-era engagement with the already classical past set
important precedents for later understandings of classical art,
literature and culture. This volume examines the ways in which the
labyrinthine Corpus Philostrateum represents and interrogates the
nature of interpretation and the interpreting subject. Taking
'interpretation' broadly as the production of meaning from objects
that are considered to bear some less than obvious significance, it
examines the very different interpreter figures presented:
Apollonius of Tyana as interpreter of omens, dreams and art-works;
an unnamed Vinetender and the dead Protesilaus as interpreters of
heroes; and the sophist who emotively describes a gallery full of
paintings, depicting in the process both the techniques of educated
viewing and the various errors and illusions into which a viewer
can fall.
The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which
takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained
treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This
three-volume edition presents the first complete English
translation of Proclus' text, together with a general introduction
that argues for the unity of Proclus' Commentary and orients the
reader to the use that the Neoplatonists made of Plato's Republic
in their educational program. Each volume is completed by a Greek
word index and an English-Greek glossary that will help
non-specialists to track the occurrence of key terms throughout the
translated text. The first volume of the edition presents Proclus'
essays on the point and purpose of Plato's dialogue, the arguments
against Thrasymachus in Book I, the rules for correct poetic
depictions of the divine, a series of problems about the status of
poetry across all Plato's works, and finally an essay arguing for
the fundamental agreement of Plato's philosophy with the divine
wisdom of Homer which is, in Proclus' view, allegorically
communicated through his poems.
The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which
takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained
treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This
three-volume edition presents the first complete English
translation of Proclus' text, together with a general introduction
that argues for the unity of Proclus' Commentary and orients the
reader to the use that the Neoplatonists made of Plato's Republic
in their educational program. Each volume is completed by a Greek
word index and an English-Greek glossary that will help
non-specialists to track the occurrence of key terms throughout the
translated text. The first volume of the edition presents Proclus'
essays on the point and purpose of Plato's dialogue, the arguments
against Thrasymachus in Book I, the rules for correct poetic
depictions of the divine, a series of problems about the status of
poetry across all Plato's works, and finally an essay arguing for
the fundamental agreement of Plato's philosophy with the divine
wisdom of Homer which is, in Proclus' view, allegorically
communicated through his poems.
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