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The Many Voices of a Teacher without TeachersMéthexis 33 (1): 170-196. 2021.The aim of this paper is to show that an introductory step to the Neoplatonic exegesis of the dialogue was to redefine the figure of Socrates and Socratism, so as to offer aspiring Platonists a correct interpretation of Plato and of the Neoplatonic metaphysical system. In the final stages of a long tradition, Socrates became the teacher par excellence not only of Plato but of all Platonists. In particular, by focusing on the Prolegomena to Platonic philosophy I wish to highlight the fact that, w…Read more
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16COMPANION TO PLOTINUS REVISITED - (L.P.) Gerson, (J.) Wilberding (edd.) The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus. Pp. xxiv + 471, figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paper, £26.99, US$34.99 (Cased, £79.99, US$105). ISBN: 978-1-108-72623-8 (978-1-108-48834-1 hbk) (review)The Classical Review 74 (1): 96-99. 2024.
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26The Theme and Target of Plato's Dialogues in Neoplatonist Cosmo-Literary TheoryClassical Quarterly 73 (1): 78-89. 2023.This paper investigates Neoplatonist literary criticism by framing the special interest in the target of each dialogue within the context of cosmo-literary theory. The starting hypothesis is that the themes of Plato's dialogues do not fully meet the expectations of a new didactics based on isagogical schemes as an image of Neoplatonic metaphysics. Among these schemes is the target of each dialogue, whose relation to the theme can be explained, in a fruitful and innovative way, through a cosmic a…Read more
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12Franco Trabattoni, Eros antico. Un percorso filosofico e letterario, Carocci, Roma 2021 [pp. 154]Plato Journal 24 93-96. 2023.
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8Review of E. Kaklamanou, M. Pavlou, A. Tsakmakis (eds.), Framing the Dialogues. How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato, Brill: Leiden-Boston 2021 (review)Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 32. 2022.Review of E. Kaklamanou, M. Pavlou, A. Tsakmakis (eds.), Framing the Dialogues. How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato, Brill: Leiden-Boston 2021 (Brill’s Plato Studies Series 6), pp. 318. ISSN: 2452-2945.
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9Logous poiein: l'eredità platonica e il superamento dell'aporia dei dialoghiPaolo Loffredo iniziative editoriali. 2018.
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8Isagogical Crossroads from the Early Imperial Age to the End of Antiquity (edited book)BRILL. 2022.This book explores how introductory methods shaped intellectual activity in various fields of thought of the post-Hellenistic Age and Late Antiquity by framing them in a wider interdisciplinary framework.
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25Putting Cosmogony into Words: The Neoplatonists on Metaphysics and DiscoursePeitho 10 (1): 113-132. 2019.The present paper focuses on some aspects of the Neoplatonist literary-metaphysical theory, which has clearly been expressed in the anonymous Prolegomena to Plato’s philosophy and further confirmed in Proclus’ exegesis of the Timaeus. Thus, this contribution, examines and compares several passages from the Prolegomena and from Proclus’ Commentary on the Timaeus with a view to showing that it is legitimate to speak of a certain cosmogony of the Platonic dialogue that is analogous to that of the…Read more
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14Plato and ‘the Birdhunters’: The Controversial Legacy of an Elusive SwanPeitho 6 (1): 93-112. 2015.The aim of this paper is to discuss some features of the doctrines of the agrapha dogmata in Neoplatonism, starting from the reading of an anecdote, presented in the Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy, in which Plato dreams that close to death he becomes a swan which hunters are unable to catch. In fact, the dream is an explanation of the development of the Platonic tradition, and, more precisely, it presents a story of several exegetical disagreements that have survived till the prese…Read more
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15The Historical Antecedents of Platonism: The Role of the Presocratics According to the NeoplatonistsPeitho 5 (1): 43-58. 2014.One of the aims of the Neoplatonists is to demonstrate that ancient Presocratic thought is, in fact, a Preplatonic thought. According to the Neoplatonists, Presocratics, who were not far from the truth, employed an inaccurate and ambiguous language, whereas Plato spoke about the truth in a more appropriate and clear way. That is why the Presocratics are not necessarily erroneous and their theoretical originality and their terminology can be incorporated into the Neoplatonic philosophy. I would l…Read more
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12O cosmos visível dos diálogos: algumas observações históricas e filosóficas sobre Platão nas escolas da Antiguidade tardiaArchai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 12 11-16. 2014.
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12O cosmos visível dos diálogos: algumas observações históricas e filosóficas sobre Platão nas escolas da Antiguidade tardiaArchai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 12 11-16. 2014.
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17Harold Tarrant, Danielle A. Layne, Dirk Baltzly, François Renaud: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (review)Elenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 39 (1): 171-178. 2018.
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41The Philosophy of Artistic Creation: Phidias, the Ideas, and CiceroApeiron 51 (3): 325-344. 2018.Journal Name: Apeiron Issue: Ahead of print
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32Tra Acropoli e Agorá. Luoghi e figure della citta in Platone e Aristotele by Enrico Nuzzo (review)Chôra 11 281-286. 2013.
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19The Visible Cosmos of Dialogues. Some Historical and Philosophical Remarks about Plato in the Late Antique SchoolsArchai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 12 11-18. 2014.English and Portuguese Between the 5 th and the 6 th centuries A. D., the Neoplatonic school of Alexandria, where the philosophical didactic follows a specific cursus studiorum , is opened also to the Christian students. D espite some divergences of religious (but also of economical and of political) natures, and after some violent events which occur in the Egyptian city, the Alexandrian school is linked to its contemporary Neoplatonic school in Athens. And indeed t he Prolegomena to Platonic Ph…Read more