Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257d-279c, with ’Syrianus’: Introduction to Hermogenes on Styles

＂This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus’ seminar on Plato’s Phaedrus, one of the world’s most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love. It is the only Neoplatonic commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus to have survived in its entirety. The third and final volume concludes Hermias’ commentary, here, Plato delivers a celebrated critique of writing, and its relationship to orality. Hermias follows him, and adds a general account of good writing＂--

Dirk Baltzly is Professor of Philosophy and Head of Discipline for Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is co-editor of Pleasure and Power, Virtues and Vices: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy (2001).

Michael Share is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania, Australia.