The Phaedo in Numenian allegorical interpretation

Title: The Phaedo in Numenian allegorical interpretation
Creator: Tarrant , Harold
Relation: Ancient Readings of Plato's Phaedo p. 134-153
Relation: Philosophia Antiqua 140
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004289543_008
Publisher: Brill
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: This contribution is concerned with interpretation of the Phaedo and related Platonic material in the second century A.S., primarily with Numeinus, one of the century's most imaginiative religious thinkers, though it must also involve his hetairos Cronis. Both of these fragmentary authors were known principally as Pythagoreans but occasionally as 'Platonics'. Most relevant material is known to us via Porphyry, who shared their fascination with questions of the soul's wanderings beyond the familiar corporeal world, and ultimately also their penchant for the allegorical interpretation of ancient authors including both Homer and Plato.
Subject: <i>Phaedo</i>; Numeinus; allegorical interpretation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1331415
Identifier: uon:26624
Identifier: ISBN:9789004289543
Language: eng

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