Formal Argument and Olympiodorus’ Development as a Plato-Commentator, 2021
By: Tarrant, Harold
Title Formal Argument and Olympiodorus’ Development as a Plato-Commentator
Type Article
Language English
Date 2021
Journal History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 210-241
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tarrant, Harold
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Olympiodorus led the Platonist school of philosophy at Alexandria for several decades in the sixth century, and both Platonic and Aristotelian commentaries ascribed to him survive. During this time the school’s attitude to the teaching of Aristotelian syllogistic, originally owing something to Ammonius, changed markedly, with an early tendency to reinforce the teaching of syllogistic even in Platonist lectures giving way to a greater awareness of its limitations. The vocabulary for arguments and their construction becomes far commoner than the language of syllogistic and syllogistic figures, and also of demonstration. I discuss the value of these changes for the dating of certain works, especially where the text lectured on does not demand different emphases. The commitment to argument rather than to authority continues, but a greater emphasis eventually falls on the establishment of the premises than on formal validity.

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity, 2018
By: Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Renaud, François (Ed.), Baltzly, Dirk (Ed.), Layne, Danielle A. (Ed.)
Title Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2018
Publication Place Boston
Publisher Brill
Series Brill's companions to classical reception
Volume 13
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Renaud, François , Baltzly, Dirk , Layne, Danielle A.
Translator(s)
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as philosopher, as author, and more generally as a central figure in the intellectual heritage of Classical Greece, from his death in the fourth century BCE until the Platonist and Aristotelian commentators in the sixth century CE. The volume is divided into three sections: ‘Early Developments in Reception’ (four chapters); ‘Early Imperial Reception’ (nine chapters); and ‘Early Christianity and Late Antique Platonism’ (eighteen chapters). Sectional introductions cover matters of importance that could not easily be covered in dedicated chapters. The book demonstrates the great variety of approaches to and interpretations of Plato among even his most dedicated ancient readers, offering some salutary lessons for his modern readers too.

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Simplicius of Cilicia: Plato's last interpreter, 2018
By: Gabor, Gary, Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Renaud, François (Ed.), Baltzly, Dirk (Ed.), Layne, Danielle A. (Ed.)
Title Simplicius of Cilicia: Plato's last interpreter
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2018
Published in Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity
Pages 569-579
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gabor, Gary
Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Renaud, François , Baltzly, Dirk , Layne, Danielle A.
Translator(s)
Simplicius is well regarded today as an insightful comprehensive, detailed, sometimes repetitive, but generally useful and reliable interpreter of Aristo­tle. How he reads other authors though - with the possible exception of the Presocratics - is less well studied. In this chapter myaim is to examine Sim­plicius' interpretation of Plato. By this I mean not Simplicius' views regarding Platonism (though these of course influenced his interpretation), but rather the ways in which Simplicius read the particular dialogues written by Plato, as well as the history that had accumulated by his time regarding Plato's life and thought. While something of a picaresque task, given that Simplicius' extant commentaries all center on texts of either Aristotle or the Stoic Epictetus - the Physics, De Caelo, Categories, and, disputedly, the De Anima, as well as the En­chiridion - nevertheless, his frequent references, allusions, and discussions of Plato's works in his writing provide ample evidence for gathering a good work­ing picture of how Simplicius read him. [Introduction, pp. 569 f.]

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Akrasia and Enkrateia in Simplicius’s Commentary on Epictetus’s Emcheiridion, 2014
By: Lawrence, Marilynn, Layne, Danielle A. (Ed.), Tarrant, Harold (Ed.)
Title Akrasia and Enkrateia in Simplicius’s Commentary on Epictetus’s Emcheiridion
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2014
Published in The Neoplatonic Socrates
Pages 127-142
Categories no categories
Author(s) Lawrence, Marilynn
Editor(s) Layne, Danielle A. , Tarrant, Harold
Translator(s)
This text explores the problem of akrasia, or the phenomenon of knowingly erring, within Socratic philosophy, and its relationship to Socratic intellectualism. The denial of akrasia by Socrates and Aristotle's response to it have been discussed by scholars, with interpretations and critiques of the argument that no one willingly chooses to do what they know is wrong. Simplicius attempted to reconcile these differing views and harmonize the phenomenon of akrasia while preserving Socrates' intellectualist position through his commentary on Epictetus's Encheiridion. The text concludes with Simplicius's reflections on the antiphilosophical culture of his time and the importance of philosophical education. [introduction/conclusion]

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The Neoplatonic Socrates, 2014
By: Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Layne, Danielle A. (Ed.)
Title The Neoplatonic Socrates
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2014
Publication Place Philadelphia
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Layne, Danielle A.
Translator(s)

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Eudorus and the Early Platonist Interpretation of the "Categories", 2008
By: Tarrant, Harold
Title Eudorus and the Early Platonist Interpretation of the "Categories"
Type Article
Language English
Date 2008
Journal Laval théologique et philosophique
Volume 64
Issue 3
Pages 583-595
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tarrant, Harold
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The hermeneutic tradition concerning Aristotle’s Categories goes back to Eudorus and his contemporaries in the first century BC. Initially a perplexing text, it forces the Platonist to consider a variety of new dialectical questions. The criticisms of Eudorus demonstrate the desire for orderly arrangements, and pose questions that the hermeneutic tradition, culminating in the magnificent commentary of Simplicius, would try to answer. His pursuit of a critical agenda does not warrant the label “anti-Aristotelian” or “polemical”, but it does show why he preferred to be known as an Academic than as a Peripatetic. [Author's abstract]

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Reading Plato in antiquity, 2006
By: Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Baltzly, Dirk (Ed.)
Title Reading Plato in antiquity
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2006
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
Categories no categories
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Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Baltzly, Dirk
Translator(s)
This important collection of original essays is the first to concentrate at length on how the ancients responded to the challenge of reading and interpreting Plato, primarily between 100 BC and AD, edited by Lloyd Gerson, University of Toronto; 600. It incorporates the fruits of recent research into late antique philosophy, in particular its approach to hermeneutical problems. While a number of prominent figures, including Apuleius, Galen, Plotinus, Porphyry and lamblichus, receive detailed attention, several essays concentrate on the important figure of Proclus, in whom Neoplatonic interpretation of Plato reaches it most impressive, most surprising and most challenging form. The essays appear in chronological of their focal interpreters, giving a sense of the development of Platonist exegesis in this period. Reflecting their devotion to a common theme, the essays have been carefully edited and are presented with a composite bibliography and indices.

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The Transformation of Plato and Aristotle, 2006
By: Sorabji, Richard, Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Baltzly, Dirk (Ed.)
Title The Transformation of Plato and Aristotle
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2006
Published in Reading Plato in antiquity
Pages 185-193
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Baltzly, Dirk
Translator(s)
In Neoplatonism, though not in Aristotelian ism, Plato and Aristotle are transformed in a variety of different ways. The transformation is partly driven by a wish to harmonize Plato and Aristotle, but only partly. There is less effort to harmonize the two in some commentators than in others, and on some issues, we shall see, there is less harmonization among our commentators than there was in the Middle Platonism of an earlier period. Further, the transformation of views is driven by other factors too besides harmonization. [p. 185]

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More on Zeno's "Forty logoi", 1990
By: Tarrant, Harold
Title More on Zeno's "Forty logoi"
Type Article
Language English
Date 1990
Journal Illinois Classical Studies
Volume 15
Issue 1
Pages 23-37
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tarrant, Harold
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Akrasia and Enkrateia in Simplicius’s Commentary on Epictetus’s Emcheiridion, 2014
By: Lawrence, Marilynn, Layne, Danielle A. (Ed.), Tarrant, Harold (Ed.)
Title Akrasia and Enkrateia in Simplicius’s Commentary on Epictetus’s Emcheiridion
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2014
Published in The Neoplatonic Socrates
Pages 127-142
Categories no categories
Author(s) Lawrence, Marilynn
Editor(s) Layne, Danielle A. , Tarrant, Harold
Translator(s)
This text explores the problem of akrasia, or the phenomenon of knowingly erring, within Socratic philosophy, and its relationship to Socratic intellectualism. The denial of akrasia by Socrates and Aristotle's response to it have been discussed by scholars, with interpretations and critiques of the argument that no one willingly chooses to do what they know is wrong. Simplicius attempted to reconcile these differing views and harmonize the phenomenon of akrasia while preserving Socrates' intellectualist position through his commentary on Epictetus's Encheiridion. The text concludes with Simplicius's reflections on the antiphilosophical culture of his time and the importance of philosophical education. [introduction/conclusion]

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity, 2018
By: Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Renaud, François (Ed.), Baltzly, Dirk (Ed.), Layne, Danielle A. (Ed.)
Title Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2018
Publication Place Boston
Publisher Brill
Series Brill's companions to classical reception
Volume 13
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Renaud, François , Baltzly, Dirk , Layne, Danielle A.
Translator(s)
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as philosopher, as author, and more generally as a central figure in the intellectual heritage of Classical Greece, from his death in the fourth century BCE until the Platonist and Aristotelian commentators in the sixth century CE. The volume is divided into three sections: ‘Early Developments in Reception’ (four chapters); ‘Early Imperial Reception’ (nine chapters); and ‘Early Christianity and Late Antique Platonism’ (eighteen chapters). Sectional introductions cover matters of importance that could not easily be covered in dedicated chapters. The book demonstrates the great variety of approaches to and interpretations of Plato among even his most dedicated ancient readers, offering some salutary lessons for his modern readers too. 

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Eudorus and the Early Platonist Interpretation of the "Categories", 2008
By: Tarrant, Harold
Title Eudorus and the Early Platonist Interpretation of the "Categories"
Type Article
Language English
Date 2008
Journal Laval théologique et philosophique
Volume 64
Issue 3
Pages 583-595
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tarrant, Harold
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The hermeneutic tradition concerning Aristotle’s Categories goes back to Eudorus and his contemporaries in the first century BC. Initially a perplexing text, it forces the Platonist to consider a variety of new dialectical questions. The criticisms of Eudorus demonstrate the desire for orderly arrangements, and pose questions that the hermeneutic tradition, culminating in the magnificent commentary of Simplicius, would try to answer. His pursuit of a critical agenda does not warrant the label “anti-Aristotelian” or “polemical”, but it does show why he preferred to be known as an Academic than as a Peripatetic. [Author's abstract]

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Formal Argument and Olympiodorus’ Development as a Plato-Commentator, 2021
By: Tarrant, Harold
Title Formal Argument and Olympiodorus’ Development as a Plato-Commentator
Type Article
Language English
Date 2021
Journal History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 210-241
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tarrant, Harold
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Olympiodorus led the Platonist school of philosophy at Alexandria for several decades in the sixth century,
and both Platonic and Aristotelian commentaries ascribed to him survive. During this time the school’s
attitude to the teaching of Aristotelian syllogistic, originally owing something to Ammonius,
changed markedly, with an early tendency to reinforce the teaching of syllogistic even in Platonist
lectures giving way to a greater awareness of its limitations. The vocabulary for arguments and their
construction becomes far commoner than the language of syllogistic and syllogistic figures, and also of
demonstration. I discuss the value of these changes for the dating of certain works, especially where the
text lectured on does not demand different emphases. The commitment to argument rather than to authority
continues, but a greater emphasis eventually falls on the establishment of the premises than on formal
validity.

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More on Zeno's "Forty logoi", 1990
By: Tarrant, Harold
Title More on Zeno's "Forty logoi"
Type Article
Language English
Date 1990
Journal Illinois Classical Studies
Volume 15
Issue 1
Pages 23-37
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tarrant, Harold
Editor(s)
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Reading Plato in antiquity, 2006
By: Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Baltzly, Dirk (Ed.)
Title Reading Plato in antiquity
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2006
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
Categories no categories
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Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Baltzly, Dirk
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This important collection of original essays is the first to concentrate at length on how the ancients responded to the challenge of reading and interpreting Plato, primarily between 100 BC and AD, edited by Lloyd Gerson, University of Toronto; 600. It incorporates the fruits of recent research into late antique philosophy, in particular its approach to hermeneutical problems. While a number of prominent figures, including Apuleius, Galen, Plotinus, Porphyry and lamblichus, receive detailed attention, several essays concentrate on the important figure of Proclus, in whom Neoplatonic interpretation of Plato reaches it most impressive, most surprising and most challenging form. The essays appear in chronological of their focal interpreters, giving a sense of the development of Platonist exegesis in this period. Reflecting their devotion to a common theme, the essays have been carefully edited and are presented with a composite bibliography and indices.

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Simplicius of Cilicia: Plato's last interpreter, 2018
By: Gabor, Gary, Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Renaud, François (Ed.), Baltzly, Dirk (Ed.), Layne, Danielle A. (Ed.)
Title Simplicius of Cilicia: Plato's last interpreter
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2018
Published in Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity
Pages 569-579
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gabor, Gary
Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Renaud, François , Baltzly, Dirk , Layne, Danielle A.
Translator(s)
Simplicius is well regarded today as an insightful comprehensive, detailed, sometimes repetitive, but generally useful and reliable interpreter of Aristo­tle. How he reads other authors though - with the possible exception of the Presocratics - is less well studied. In this chapter myaim is to examine Sim­plicius' interpretation of Plato. By this I mean not Simplicius' views regarding Platonism (though these of course influenced his interpretation), but rather the ways in which Simplicius read the particular dialogues written by Plato, as well as the history that had accumulated by his time regarding Plato's life and thought. While something of a picaresque task, given that Simplicius' extant commentaries all center on texts of either Aristotle or the Stoic Epictetus -  the Physics, De Caelo,  Categories, and, disputedly, the De Anima, as well as the En­chiridion - nevertheless, his frequent references, allusions, and discussions of Plato's works in his writing provide ample evidence for gathering a good work­ing picture of how Simplicius read him. [Introduction, pp. 569 f.]

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The Neoplatonic Socrates, 2014
By: Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Layne, Danielle A. (Ed.)
Title The Neoplatonic Socrates
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2014
Publication Place Philadelphia
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
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Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Layne, Danielle A.
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The Transformation of Plato and Aristotle, 2006
By: Sorabji, Richard, Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Baltzly, Dirk (Ed.)
Title The Transformation of Plato and Aristotle
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2006
Published in Reading Plato in antiquity
Pages 185-193
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Baltzly, Dirk
Translator(s)
In  Neoplatonism,  though  not  in  Aristotelian ism,  Plato  and  Aristotle  are 
transformed  in  a  variety  of  different  ways.  The  transformation  is  partly 
driven  by  a  wish  to  harmonize  Plato  and  Aristotle,  but  only  partly.  There 
is  less  effort  to  harmonize  the  two  in  some  commentators  than  in  others, 
and  on  some  issues,  we  shall  see,  there  is  less  harmonization  among  our 
commentators  than  there  was  in  the  Middle  Platonism  of  an  earlier  period. 
Further,  the  transformation  of  views  is  driven  by  other  factors  too  besides 
harmonization. [p. 185]

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