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Title: OLYMPIODORUS: LIFE OF PLATO AND ON PLATO FIRST ALCIBIADES 1-9
By: Michael Griffin (Editor)
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £28.99


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ISBN 10: 1472588320
ISBN 13: 9781472588326
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 18 December, 2014
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Pages: 256
Synopsis: Olympiodorus (AD c. 500-570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, delivered these lectures as an introduction to Plato with a biography. For us, they can serve as an accessible introduction to late Neoplatonism. Olympiodorus locates the First Alcibiades at the start of the curriculum on Plato, because it is about self-knowledge. His pupils are beginners, able to approach the hierarchy of philosophical virtues, like the aristocratic playboy Alcibiades. Alcibiades needs to know himself, at least as an individual with particular actions, before he can reach the virtues of mere civic interaction. As Olympiodorus addresses mainly Christian students, he tells them that the different words they use are often symbols of truths shared between their faiths.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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