Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257C-279C, with ‘Syrianus’: Introduction to Hermogenes on Styles

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Michael Share (University of Tasmania, Australia) Dirk Baltzly (University of Tasmania, Australia)

Hermias

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On Plato Phaedrus 257C-279C, with ‘Syrianus’: Introduction to Hermogenes on Styles

Michael Share (University of Tasmania, Australia), Dirk Baltzly (University of Tasmania, Australia)

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Bloomsbury Academic
01 May 2025

Translation & interpretation; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

This 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 attribute—probably mistakenly—to Hermias' teacher Syrianus.

Baltzly and Share discuss the Introduction’s 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 Neoplatonic commentaries as performances of Platonic literacy in ancient elite education.

This translation offers novel evidence of interest for students of ancient philosophy, rhetorical education, and literature more broadly. It is accompanied by explanatory notes, an introduction, and scholarly apparatus, including indices, glossaries, and bibliography.

By: Michael Share (University of Tasmania Australia), Dirk Baltzly (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781350363762
ISBN 10: 1350363766
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257C-279C Conventions Abbreviations Introduction Departures from Lucarini and Moreschini’s Text Translation Notes Bibliography English–Greek Glossary Greek–English Index Subject Index ‘Syrianus’: Introduction to Hermogenes on Styles Conventions Abbreviations Introduction Translation Notes Bibliography English–Greek Glossary Greek– English Index Subject Index

Dirk Baltzly is Professor of Philosophy and Head of Discipline for Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is co-editor of Pleasure and Power, Virtues and Vices: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy (2001). Michael Share is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Reviews for Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257C-279C, with ‘Syrianus’: Introduction to Hermogenes on Styles

This is the third and concluding volume of the translation of Hermias’ Commentary on the Phaedrus, and it is very good to have. Dirk Baltzly and Michael Share once again do a fine job of bringing Hermias’ commentary to a wider audience, with a clear and accurate translation, and an abundance of explanatory notes. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *