Plato As Author: The Rhetoric of Philosophy

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Ann N. Michelini
BRILL, 1.1.2003 - 359 sivua
This collection, focusing on literary aspects of the Platonic dialogues, includes stimulating and diverse essays by scholars from several different fields. Plato, the critic, satirist, and (perhaps) inventor of "rhetoric" framed his own discourse in complex ways. "Republic" is a mimetic text that presents a sophisticated analysis of the various types of mimesis; "Phaedrus," featuring embedded exemplars of exquisite prose style, includes a severe critique of literary authorship. Texts such as these seem to demand the fullest resources of a sophisticated analysis of discourse. Essay topics include friendship and desire in the Lysis, Socratic irony in Cratylus, mystery imagery in Phaedrus, and the peculiar couch in Book 10 of Republic. Contributors include Michael Erler, David Gallop, Francisco Gonzalez, Charles Kahn, Andrea Nightingale, and Thomas Szlezak.

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Preface ཌ
1
Lysis 203a207d
15
Platos Socratic Mask
45
Gary Alan Scott
67
Glaucons Couch or Mimesis and the Art of the Republic
99
Socrates Argumentative Burden in the Republic
123
Catherine Zuckert
145
Thomas Tuozzo
197
Subtext and Subterfuge in Cratylus
223
G R F Ferrari
241
Metaphysics and Individual Souls in the Phaedo
267
Daniel Devereux
287
Socrates SwanSong
313
Bibliography of Works Cited
333
Topic Index
353
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Ann N. Michelini, Ph.D. (1971) in Classics, Harvard University, is Emerita Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati. She is author of Euripides and the Tragic Tradition (Wisconsin, 1987) and articles on tragedy and the Platonic dialogues.

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