Title: Commentaries on Plato
First published: 2008
Description: Volume 1 contains analysis and commentary on the 'Phaedrus', which is explicated as a meditation on 'beauty in all its forms' and a work of theology. The commentary on the 'Ion' explores a poetics of divine inspiration that leads to the Neoplatonist portrayal of the soul as a rhapsode whose song is an ascent into the mind of God.
Subjects: Ion (Plato), Phaedrus (Plato), Ficino, marsilio, 1433-1499, Neoplatonism, Renaissance
People: Plato
LC classification: B395 .F4713 2008