Plato’s Styles and Characters: Between Literature and Philosophy

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Plato’s Styles and Characters

Between Literature and Philosophy

Edited by: Gabriele Cornelli

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2016

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Volume 341 | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

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The significance of Plato’s literary style to the content of his ideas is perhaps one of the central problems in the study of Plato and Ancient Philosophy as a whole. As Samuel Scolnicov points out in this collection, many other philosophers have employed literary techniques to express their ideas, just as many literary authors have exemplified philosophical ideas in their narratives, but for no other philosopher does the mode of expression play such a vital role in their thought as it does for Plato. And yet, even after two thousand years there is still no consensus about why Plato expresses his ideas in this distinctive style.

Selected from the first Latin American Area meeting of the International Plato Society (www.platosociety.org) in Brazil in 2012, the following collection of essays presents some of the most recent scholarship from around the world on the wide range of issues related to Plato’s dialogue form. The essays can be divided into three categories. The first addresses general questions concerning Plato’s literary style. The second concerns the relation of his style to other genres and traditions in Ancient Greece. And the third examines Plato’s characters and his purpose in using them.

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Gabriele Cornelli, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Plato’s Literary Style
Beyond Language and Literature Samuel Scolnicov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	5
The Three Waves of Dialectic in the Republic Raúl Gutiérrez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
Plato’s Unfinished Trilogy: Timaeus–Critias–Hermocrates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
The Myth of the Winged Chariot in the Phaedrus: A Vehicle for Philosophical Thinking María Angélica Fierro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
Perspectivism, Proleptic Writing and Generic agón: Three Readings of the Symposium Lucas Soares Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
Plato’s Argumentative Strategies in Theaetetus and Sophist Graciela E. Marcos de Pinotti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
Other Genres and Traditions
Detailed Completeness and Pleasure of the Narrative. Some Remarks on the Narrative Tradition and Plato Michael Erler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
The meeting scenes in the incipit of Plato’s dialogue Dino De Sanctis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
The Philosophical Writing and the Drama of Knowledge in Plato Gilmário Guerreiro da Costa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
Comic Dramaturgy in Plato: Observations from the Ion Marcus Mota Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Amicus Homerus: Allusive Art in Plato’s Incipit to Book X of the Republic (595a–c) Mario Regali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Performance and Elenchos in Plato’s Ion Fernando Muniz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
Plato and the Catalogue Form in Ion Mauro Tulli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
Orphic Aristophanes at Plato’s Symposium Fernando Santoro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Socrates as a physician of the soul Álvaro Vallejo Campos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
The Style of Medical Writing in the Speech of Eryximachus: Imitation and Contamination Silvio Marino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
Gorgias, the eighth orator. Gorgianic echoes in Agathon’s Speech in the Symposium Esteban Bieda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Plato’s Phaedrus: A Play Inside the Play Beatriz Bossi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Plato’s Characters
He longs for him, he hates him and he wants him for himself: The Alcibiades Case between Socrates and Plato Gabriele Cornelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
Five Platonic Characters Debra Nails Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
Who Is Plato’s Callicles and What Does He Teach? Francisco Bravo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
Doing business with Protagoras (Prot. 313e): Plato and the Construction of a Character Michele Corradi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Theaetetus and Protarchus: two philosophical characters or what a philosophical soul should do Marcelo D. Boeri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
The Role of Diotima in the Symposium: The Dialogue and Its Double Christian Keime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	379
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	401
Citations Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	407
Author Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	419

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November 27, 2015

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November 7, 2017

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426

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Dialogue; Plato

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All those interested in Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Platonic Tradition and Ancient Literature.

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