Hermias

This commentary records through notes taken by Hermias Syrianus' seminar on Plato's <i>Phaedrus</i> one of the world's most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love. It is the only Neoplatonic commentary on Plato's <i>Phaedrus</i>to have survived in its entirety. Further interest comes from the recorded interventions by Syrianus' pupils - including those by Proclus his eventual successor as head of the Athenian school who went on to teach Hermias' father Ammonius. <br/> <br/> The second of two volumes of Hermias' commentary the chapters translated here begin with a discussion of how the discarnate soul is visualised as a winged chariot team whose charioteer may gain some glimpse of beauty itself which can explain subsequent erotic longing. This volume provides a translation is accompanied by explanatory notes an introduction detailing the significance and context of the treatise and a scholarly apparatus including multiple indexes glossaries and a bibliography.