Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257C-279C, with Syrianus

This third and final volume concludes Hermias'' commentary on Plato''s Phaedrus. Here, Plato delivers a celebrated critique of writing, and its relationship to orality. Hermias follows him, and adds a general account of good writing. In addition, this volume offers the first English translation of the brief Introduction to Hermogenes'' On Styles, which manuscripts attribute-probably mistakenly-to ...