Harold Tarrant
Biographic Data
| ID | 969675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold Tarrant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold |
| FAMILY NAME | Tarrant |
| SIGNATURE | TARRANT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7923-9986 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reassessing Homer in the Platonic Tradition
From the Old Academy to Later Neo-Platonism: Studies in the History of Platonic Thought
Plato's Gorgias: A Critical Guide
Shadows of justice in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
Apuleius was accomplished in many arts, whether or not those arts include the practice of magic, as suggested by his opponents in the Apology. His versatility is demonstrated by extant works, even if we exclude the De Dogmate Platonis which I am strongly inclined to accept as Apuleian. The De Deo Socratis adequately shows his ease with Platonic philosophy, and the Metamorphoses and Florida show his versatility with larger and smaller forms alike.…
Origen's 'Celsus: Questions of Identity
This article will investigate a certain similarity between Origen's response to Celsus' True Logos and the criticisms against Longinus' interpretation of the early pages of Plato's Timaeus made in Proclus' Commentary by a certain Origenes, usually held to be a pagan though without compelling evidence. Origen begins by assuming that 'Celsus' was an Epicurean of that name, even though it has long been obvious that 'Celsus' has adopted a Platonist p…
The Socratic Way of Life: Xenophon’s Memorabilia, written by Thomas L. Pangle
Albinus
Albinus was an influential Platonist teacher eminent enough to have been sought out by Galen ca. 150 ce . One short work and a title suggesting he was a pupil of the Platonist Gaius are preserved. Albinus seems to have approached Plato through the dialogues, read in a fairly literal fashion. Fragments in Proclus supplement our knowledge of his approach to Platonic exegesis.
Gaius the Platonist
Gaius was a prominent Platonist of the early second century ce , known from inscriptions at Delphi and from Galen as well as later Platonists. It is possible that he is only known to us thanks to Albinus having recorded his lectures in a work extending to eleven books. He is known to have lectured on Plato's Republic (book x) and Timaeus , and he emphasized that Plato's works used two different ways of communicating doctrine, according to his sub…
Porphyry and ‘Neopythagorean’ Exegesis in Cave of the Nymphs and Elsewhere
Porphyry’s position in the ancient hermeneutic tradition should be considered separately from his place in the Platonic tradition. He shows considerable respect for allegorizing interpreters with links to Pythagoreanism, particularly Numenius and Cronius, prominent sources in On the Cave of the Nymphs. The language of Homer’s Cave passage is demonstrably distinctive, resembling the Shield passage in the Iliad, and such as to suggest an ecphrasis …
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as philosopher, as author, and more generally as a central figure in the intellectual heritage of Classical Greece, from his death in the fourth century BCE until the Platonist and Aristotelian commentators in the sixth century CE. The volume is divided into three sections: ‘Early Developments in Recepti…
The Socratic Dubia
Plotinus, Origenes, and Ammonius on the ‘King’
In the early Roman Empire the theology of Platonist philosophers became increasingly concerned with a number of Platonic texts that appeared to offer some hope of settling debate over the kind of god(s) that Plato had postulated. Most of these seemingly authoritative texts were drawn from what we refer to as the 'middle' and 'late' dialogues, sometimes but not always considered in context. Small snippets of relevant texts could be quoted for a va…
Forgetting Procline Theology: The Alexandrian Story
I tackle the question of how the Parmenides seems to have been sidelined as a theological dialogue by the time of the anonymous Prolegomena, using in particular the fact that the author associated the style of the Timaeus with theology rather than that of the Parmenides
From the Old Academy to Later Neo-Platonism: Studies in the History of Platonic Thought
Contents: Preface Part I Socrates, Plato, and the Old Academy: Midwifery and the Clouds The Hippias Major and Socratic theories of pleasure The composition of Plato's Gorgias Plato's Euthydemus and the two faces of Socrates Chronology and narrative apparatus in Plato's dialogues Orality and Plato's narrative dialogues Plato, prejudice, and the mature-age student in antiquity Myth as a tool of persuasion in Plato Review of Leonardo TarA!n, Speusip…
Where did the Mirror Go? The Text of Plato [?] Alcibiades I 133c1-6
At Alcibiades I, 133b-c, the reader expects, but does not according to the MSS find, the return of the mirror-motif that had supposedly explained the true meaning of the Delphic injunction. Hence it remains unclear why anything viewed within the soul should act in any way that resembles a mirror. I argue that the substitution of a single letter in one word, about which the manuscripts and modern scholars in any case disagree, can restore the nece…
The Platonic Alcibiades I: The Dialogue and its Ancient Reception
Although it was influential for several hundred years after it first appeared, doubts about the authenticity of the Platonic Alcibiades I have unnecessarily impeded its interpretation ever since. It positions itself firmly within the Platonic and Socratic traditions, and should therefore be approached in the same way as most other Platonic dialogues. It paints a vivid portrait of a Socrates in his late thirties tackling the unrealistic ambitions …
The Phaedo in Numenian Allegorical Interpretation
This contribution is concerned with interpretation of the Phaedo and related Platonic material in the second century A.S., primarily with Numeinus, one of the century's most imaginiative religious thinkers, though it must also involve his hetairos Cronis. Both of these fragmentary authors were known principally as Pythagoreans but occasionally as 'Platonics'. Most relevant material is known to us via Porphyry, who shared their fascination with qu…
Proclus: Commentary on the First Alcibiades
Even those who possess, and are able to make efficient use of, the more recent Budé edition by Alain Segonds will not find it superfluous to seat this handsome volume on their shelves.The fact that there is simply a lot more on each page means that it is in many ways easier to use than than its potential rival.The entire extant portion of the commentary (to 116b), plus a few fragments of Proclus' exegesis of the Alcibiades (not necessarily from t…
Michael J. Rinella. Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens . Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Proclus' Commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. This edition offers the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It provides an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato's dialogue, while…
Olympiodorus and Proclus on the Climax of the Alcibiades
This paper examines the late Neoplatonic evidence for the text at the crucial point of the Alcibiades I, 133c, finding that Olympiodorus' important evidence is not in the lexis, which strangely has nothing to say. Perhaps it was dangerous in Christian Alexandria to record one's views here too precisely. Rather, they are found primarily in the prologue and secondarily in the relevant theoria. Olympiodorus believes that he is quoting from the work …
Xiii - Platonist Educators in a Growing Market: Gaius; Albinus; Taurus; Alcinous
Journal Article XIII - PLATONIST EDUCATORS IN A GROWING MARKET: GAIUS; ALBINUS; TAURUS; ALCINOUS Get access HAROLD TARRANT HAROLD TARRANT University of Newcastle, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_94_Part_2, June 2007, Pages 449–465, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02441.x Published: 20 January 2014
Xiv - Antiochus: A New Beginning
XIV - ANTIOCHUS: A NEW BEGINNING? Get access HAROLD TARRANT HAROLD TARRANT University of Newcastle, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_94_Part_2, June 2007, Pages 317–332, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02432.x Published: 20 January 2014
Xxi - Moral Goal and Moral Virtues in Middle Platonism
Journal Article XXI - MORAL GOAL AND MORAL VIRTUES IN MIDDLE PLATONISM HAROLD TARRANT HAROLD TARRANT University of Newcastle, NSW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_94_Part_2, June 2007, Pages 419–429, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02439.x Published: 20 January 2014
Atlantis: Myths, Ancient and Modern
In this paper I show that the story of Atlantis, first sketched in Plato's Timaeus and Critias, has been artificially shrouded in mystery since antiquity. While it has been thought from Proclus to the close of the twentieth century that Plato's immediate followers were divided on the issue of whether the story was meant to be historically true, this results from a simple misunderstanding of what historia had meant when the early Academic Crantor …
Midwifery and the Clouds
Julius Tomin has recently questioned the new orthodoxy, stemming from Burnyeat's impressive article, that Socratic midwifery is not genuinely Socratic. I understand that many will feel the need to question Burnyeat's position, but I am unhappy that Aristophanes' comedy has once again been thought to give support to the view that Socrates had been known as an intellectual midwife. Thus my response will concentrate on our understanding of Clouds , …
Middle Platonism and the Seventh Epistle
La theorie de la connaissance des Idees qui caracterise le moyen platonisme s'avere identique a la theorie contenue dans la digression epistemologique de la Lettre VII de Platon. L'A. considere, sur cette base, que la digression est en fait un des premiers temoins du moyen platonisme
Michael J. Rinella. Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens . Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010
"The Platonic "Theages: An Introduction, Commentary, and Critical Edition
The Theages poses a number of problems for the interpreter of Plato and the Platonic dialogue. Traditionally, the most controversial one concerns the authenticity of the work: is Plato its author, and what criteria may be considered valid and important for settling the debate over authorship. But there are numerous other questions of at least equal significance. What is the purpose for which this dialogue was written, and what is its meaning. Is …
Speusippus' ontological classification
Middle Platonism and the Seventh Epistle
La theorie de la connaissance des Idees qui caracterise le moyen platonisme s'avere identique a la theorie contenue dans la digression epistemologique de la Lettre VII de Platon. L'A. considere, sur cette base, que la digression est en fait un des premiers temoins du moyen platonisme
Zeno on Knowledge or on Geometry? The Evidence of anon. In Theaetetum
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Scepticism or Platonism? The Philosophy of the Fourth Academy
Peripatetic and Stoic Epistemology in Boethus and Antiochus
Scepticism or Platonism
Scepticism or Platonism? The Philosophy of the Fourth Academy
Preface List of non-standard abbreviations Introduction 1. Scepticism in the late Academy? 2. Charmadas 3. Fourth Academic epistmological doctrine 4. Anonymous In Theaetetum 5. Interlude: Antiochus in the New Academy 6. God's thoughts as objects of knowledge Epilogue: the Academic heritage Notes Bibliography Index locorum Index of names
Midwifery and the Clouds
Julius Tomin has recently questioned the new orthodoxy, stemming from Burnyeat's impressive article, that Socratic midwifery is not genuinely Socratic. I understand that many will feel the need to question Burnyeat's position, but I am unhappy that Aristophanes' comedy has once again been thought to give support to the view that Socrates had been known as an intellectual midwife. Thus my response will concentrate on our understanding of Clouds , …
Aristotle: The desire to understand
Oxford studies in ancient philosophy
The Cambridge history of classical literature, volume I, parts 1 (Early Greek poetry)
The Cambridge history of classical literature, volume I, parts 1 (Early Greek poetry)." History of European Ideas, 14(3), p. 427
Thrasyllan Platonism
Two Studies in the Early Academy
Thrasyllan Platonism
Orality and Plato’s Narrative Dialogues
Greek philosophers of the hellenistic age
Restoring Olympiodorus’ Syllogistic
Olympiodorus: Commentary on Platos Gorgias: Introduction by Harold Tarrant
Observations on the Text of Olympiodorus On Plato's Gorgias
kind of detailed reading which is likely to suggest, or even demand, changes to the received text which have not been thought necessary by those only editing. While working on a translation of Olympiodorus5 commentary on the Gorgias recendy1), it not only became obvious to me that L.G. Westerink's careful edition of the text2), itself far superior to that of Norvin3), and able to benefit from a variety of other emendations proposed by reviewers o…
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Late antique philosophy grew out of the mé'lange of cultures and traditions flourishing during the Augustan pax Romana. It took its quintessential attributes in the pressures besetting the late Roman Empire, and it quietly came to an end when the Mediterranean no longer linked but divided the shores it washed, becoming a barrier separating the Islamic Abbasids, the Byzantines and the Frankish empire. According to the church historian Eusebius of …
Does Socrates Have a Method?: Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond
Elenchos and Exetasis: Capturing the Purpose of Socratic Interrogation
Plato's First Interpreters
Platonic interpretation is today at a crossroads: the corpus is being read in a variety of ways, and an authoritative approach to the whole seems elusive. In this book, the author explores ancient attempts to wrestle with Plato's writings, by philosophers whose philosphical armoury was less sophisticated but who had the advantage of speaking a Greek not unlike that of 4th-century Athens. Although the book porvdes many insights into Plato's interp…
Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World
First launched at the time of the Athens Olympics, Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World has become a classic study in its field. The 15 illustrated chapters of this collection not only explore many aspects of the ancient Olympics and the rich programme of competitive festivals in democratic Athens but also the broader religious, social and political contexts in which sport and festival flourished in ancient Greece. The book shows how the…
"The Platonic "Theages: An Introduction, Commentary, and Critical Edition
The Theages poses a number of problems for the interpreter of Plato and the Platonic dialogue. Traditionally, the most controversial one concerns the authenticity of the work: is Plato its author, and what criteria may be considered valid and important for settling the debate over authorship. But there are numerous other questions of at least equal significance. What is the purpose for which this dialogue was written, and what is its meaning. Is …
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