The Rhetoric of Natural Law in Plato’s Menexenus

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Acknowledgement VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Plato’s Funeral Oration: The Motive of the Menexenus 9
6. Reading the Menexenus Intertextually 29
7. On the Structure of Plato’s Menexenus 51
8. Improvisatory Rhetoric in the Menexenus 71
9. The Rhetoric of Natural Law in Plato’s Menexenus 91
10. A Strange Migration from the Menexenus to the Laws 113
11. Does the political regime feed and rear the citizens? Trophē in Plato’s Menexenus and his other political dialogues 135
12. Ethnic Identity and Its Political Consequences in the Menexenus 153
13. “Since we are two alone:” Socratic Paideia in the Menexenus 173
14. Bibliography 197