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Title Plato as author : the rhetoric of philosophy / edited by Ann N. Michelini
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 359 pages)
Series Cincinnati classical studies ; new ser., v. 8
Cincinnati classical studies ; new ser., v. 8.
Contents How to read a Platonic prologue: Lysis 203a-207d -- Plato's Socratic mask -- Plato's politic writing and the cultivation of souls -- Glaucon's couch, or mimesis and the art of the Republic -- Socrates' argumentative burden in the Republic -- To hear the right thing and to miss the point: Plato's implicit poetics -- Rhetoric as part of an initiation into the mysteries: a new interpretation of the Platonic Phaedrus -- Six philosophers on philosophical esotericism -- Subtext and subterfuge in Cratylus -- The man with no name: Socrates and the visitor from Elea -- Metaphysics and individual souls in the Phaedo -- On the philosophical autonomy of a Platonic dialogue: the case of recollection -- The rhetoric of philosophy: Socrates' swan-song
Summary This collection, focusing on literary aspects of the Platonic dialogues, includes diverse essays by scholars from several different fields. Topics include friendship and desire in the Lysis, Socratic irony in Cratylus, and mystery imagery in Phaedrus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-351) and index
Notes English
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Subject Plato -- Writing skill
SUBJECT Plato fast
Plato. swd
Subject Rhetoric, Ancient.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Rhetoric, Ancient
Schriftlichkeit
Rhetorik
Dialogen.
Grieks.
Stilistiek.
Retorica.
Form Electronic book
Author Michelini, Ann N
ISBN 1417502258
9781417502257
9047401832
9789047401834
1280467096
9781280467097