Outputs (3)

Making Sense of the Soul’s Numbers. Middle Platonist Readings of Plato’s Divisio Animae (2018)
Journal Article
Petrucci, F. (2019). Making Sense of the Soul’s Numbers. Middle Platonist Readings of Plato’s Divisio Animae. Apeiron, 52(1), 65-92. https://doi.org/10.1515/apeiron-2017-0080

The aim of this paper is to show that a new approach to Middle Platonist technical exegesis is both necessary and profitable, for it can shed light on the deep philosophical and methodological background of Middle Platonist exegesis as a whole. Throu... Read More about Making Sense of the Soul’s Numbers. Middle Platonist Readings of Plato’s Divisio Animae.

Taurus of Beirut. The Other Side of Middle Platonism (2018)
Book
Petrucci, F. (2018). Taurus of Beirut. The Other Side of Middle Platonism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315641621

Wie man eine Platonstelle deutet: Exegetische Strukturen im Mittelplatonismus (2017)
Journal Article
Petrucci, F. (2017). Wie man eine Platonstelle deutet: Exegetische Strukturen im Mittelplatonismus. Philologus, 162(1), 55-91. https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2017-0019

In this paper I analyse the most important pieces of evidence concerning the structure of Middle Platonist exegesis (passages from Diogenes Laertius, Taurus of Beirut, the anonymous Commentary on the Theaetetus, Longinus). At first sight these source... Read More about Wie man eine Platonstelle deutet: Exegetische Strukturen im Mittelplatonismus.