Plato's Auctoritas and the Rebirth of the Commentary Tradition, 1997
By: Sedley, David N., Barnes, Jonathan (Ed.), Griffin, Michael J. (Ed.)
Title Plato's Auctoritas and the Rebirth of the Commentary Tradition
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1997
Published in Philosophia togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome
Pages 110-129
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sedley, David N.
Editor(s) Barnes, Jonathan , Griffin, Michael J.
Translator(s)
In this paper I shall be considering the emerge, or rather re-emerge, of Platonic commentary around the end of the Hellenistic age. That is the period which forms the essential background to our chief surviving specimens of the genre, the great fifth-century Platonic commentaries of Proclus. Specifically, I intend to examine why Platonic philosophy came to such a large extent to take the form of commentary, and how the resources of the commentary format were deployed for the task of establishing, preserving, and exploiting Plato's philosophical authority. [Author's abstract]

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Plato's Auctoritas and the Rebirth of the Commentary Tradition, 1997
By: Sedley, David N., Barnes, Jonathan (Ed.), Griffin, Michael J. (Ed.)
Title Plato's Auctoritas and the Rebirth of the Commentary Tradition
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1997
Published in Philosophia togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome
Pages 110-129
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sedley, David N.
Editor(s) Barnes, Jonathan , Griffin, Michael J.
Translator(s)
In this paper I shall be considering the emerge, or rather re-emerge, of Platonic commentary around the end of the Hellenistic age. That is the period which forms the essential background to our chief surviving specimens of the genre, the great fifth-century Platonic commentaries of Proclus. Specifically, I intend to examine why Platonic philosophy came to such a large extent to take the form of commentary, and how the resources of the commentary format were deployed for the task of establishing, preserving, and exploiting Plato's philosophical authority. [Author's abstract]

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