Pseudo-platonic immortality
Axiochus and its Posterity in Humanism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21865152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José María Zamora Calvo (0000-0001-7101-2234, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-56 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ΣΧΟΛΗ Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1995-4328 • E-ISSN: 1995-4336 |
| Publisher | Novosibirsk State University (NSU) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25205/1995-4328-2020-14-1-38-56 |
| OpenAlex | W3035776810 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The aim of this article is to trace the influence of Axiochus, an apocryphal text attributed to Plato, on Humanism. The dialogue, which belongs to the literary genre of “consolation”, addresses the theme of contempt of death and the immortality of the soul. The jurist Pedro Díaz de Toledo (1410/15 – 1466) translated it into Spanish in 1444 from a Latin version entitled De morte contemnenda, which Cencio de’ Rustici had translated eight years earlier, probably from the Greek codex provided by Joannes Chrysoloras, the Vaticanus gr. 1031. For his part, the humanist Beatus Rhenanus (1485 – 1547), the owner of five editions, revised and corrected in detail the text of a translation by Rudolf Agricola, proposing a number of amendments and changes that would appear in the Basel edition printed by Adam Petri in 1518
Art · Consolation · Contempt · Humanism · Immortality · Literature · Soul · Theology · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |