Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition

Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition
Michael Erler, Jan Erik Hessler, Federico M Petrucci
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h229 x 152mm - 320pg
4 Mar 2021 UK
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9781108844000
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All disciplines can count on a noble founder, and the representation of this founder as an authority is key in order to construe a discipline' s identity. This book sheds light on how Plato and other authorities were represented in one of the most long-lasting traditions of all time. It leads the reader through exegesis and polemics, recovery of the past and construction of a philosophical identity. From Xenocrates to Proclus, from the sceptical shift to the re-establishment of dogmatism, from the Mosaic of the Philosophers to the Neoplatonist Commentaries, the construction of authority emerges as a way of access to the core of the Platonist tradition.
Michael Erler is Professor ordinarius of Classical Philology at the Julius-Maximilian-Universitat Wurzburg. He is the author of several books and articles on Plato, Platonism, Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition, drama, and Hellenistic and Imperial literature. Jan Erik Hessler is a Lecturer in the Department of Classics at the Julius-Maximilian-Universitat Wurzburg. He has published an edition of Epicurus' s Letter to Menoeceus (2014), and co-edited Argument und literarische Form in antiker Philosophie (2013), as well as publishing numerous articles on the Platonic and Epicurean tradition. Federico M. Petrucci is Professor of Ancient Philosophy in Turin. His main research areas are Plato and the Platonist Tradition and his publications include the first English translation of the texts of the Platonist Taurus of Beirut (2018).

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