Plotinus' seminar on the Symposium
The evidence of the Vita Plotini is that Plotinus held a seminar on Plato's dialogue the Symposium in Rome in the third century. Although he was not himself a speaker at the seminar he owed much to the dialogue in his Enneads, most notably to the speech of Diotima. Ennead 3.5 is his exegesis of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Journal for late antique religion and culture
Year: 2017, Volume: 11, Pages: 59-64 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Porphyrius 233-301, Vita Plotini
/ Plato 427 BC-347 BC, Symposium
/ Diotima, Literary characters
/ Myth
/ Plotinus 205-270, Enneades
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| RelBib Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Eros
B Plotinus B Plato B Late Antiquity B Neoplatonism |
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| Summary: | The evidence of the Vita Plotini is that Plotinus held a seminar on Plato's dialogue the Symposium in Rome in the third century. Although he was not himself a speaker at the seminar he owed much to the dialogue in his Enneads, most notably to the speech of Diotima. Ennead 3.5 is his exegesis of Diotima's myth of the union of Poverty and the drunken Plenty, and it displays his typical inconsistency and brilliance. Elsewhere in the Enneads he treats Diotima's final mysteries, largely agreeing with her except for his insistence that the final vision is not of the Form Beauty but of the dwellingplace of the Forms that is the Nous. |
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| ISSN: | 1754-517X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for late antique religion and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18573/j.2018.10452 |