ABSTRACT
The discussion of commentary as a genre, and of the theory behind it, is a large subject, with many ramifications, and I am wary of addressing it at too general a level. My particular area of interest and expertise is the philosophic commentary, and, within that, the allegorical philosophic commentary characteristic of later Neoplatonism, and I think I would do best to confine myself to that. In view of this, it seemed to me best to pick on a particular problem in Platonic exegesis, and see what more general conclusions, if any, may be gleaned from a study of that.
