Perspectivism, Proleptic Writing and Generic agón: Three Readings of the Symposium

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Plato’s Literary Style
5. Beyond Language and Literature 5
6. The Three Waves of Dialectic in the Republic 15
7. Plato’s Unfinished Trilogy: Timaeus–Critias–Hermocrates 33
8. The Myth of the Winged Chariot in the Phaedrus: A Vehicle for Philosophical Thinking 47
9. Perspectivism, Proleptic Writing and Generic agón: Three Readings of the Symposium 63
10. Plato’s Argumentative Strategies in Theaetetus and Sophist 77
11. Other Genres and Traditions
12. Detailed Completeness and Pleasure of the Narrative. Some Remarks on the Narrative Tradition and Plato 103
13. The meeting scenes in the incipit of Plato’s dialogue 119
14. The Philosophical Writing and the Drama of Knowledge in Plato 137
15. Comic Dramaturgy in Plato: Observations from the Ion 157
16. Amicus Homerus: Allusive Art in Plato’s Incipit to Book X of the Republic (595a–c) 173
17. Performance and Elenchos in Plato’s Ion 187
18. Plato and the Catalogue Form in Ion 203
19. Orphic Aristophanes at Plato’s Symposium 211
20. Socrates as a physician of the soul 227
21. The Style of Medical Writing in the Speech of Eryximachus: Imitation and Contamination 241
22. Gorgias, the eighth orator. Gorgianic echoes in Agathon’s Speech in the Symposium 253
23. Plato’s Phaedrus: A Play Inside the Play 263
24. Plato’s Characters
25. He longs for him, he hates him and he wants him for himself: The Alcibiades Case between Socrates and Plato 281
26. Five Platonic Characters 297
27. Who Is Plato’s Callicles and What Does He Teach? 317
28. Doing business with Protagoras (Prot. 313e): Plato and the Construction of a Character 335
29. Theaetetus and Protarchus: two philosophical characters or what a philosophical soul should do 357
30. The Role of Diotima in the Symposium: The Dialogue and Its Double 379
31. Contributors 401
32. Citations Index 407
33. Author Index 411
34. Subject Index 419