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1 online resource |
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List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 0.1 Re-examining the History of Dialogue -- 0.2 A "Genre" of Dialogue? -- 0.3 Structure of the Book -- 1. Dialogic Entanglements -- 1.1 Introductory Remarks -- 1.2 Dialogue and Anecdote -- 1.3 Dialogue and Epistolography -- 1.4 Dialogue and Extended Biographies -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 2. Dialogues in Papyri -- 2.1 Introductory Remarks -- 2.2 Philosophical Dialogues -- 2.2.1 On Eros (PErl. 4 [MP³ 2103]) -- 2.2.2 The Art of Speaking in Democracy and Oligarchy (PSI XI 1215 [MP³ 2098]) -- 2.2.3 Socrates and Hedonists: A Fragment of Hegesias of Cyrene? (PKöln 5.205 [MP³ 2587.01]) -- 2.2.4 A Protreptic Dialogue: Nothing Is Useful for a Bad Man (POxy. 53.3699 [MP³ 2592.610]) 52 -- 2.2.5 Dialogue on Ideas (PAï Khanoum inv. Akh IIIB77P.O.154 [MP³ 2563.010]) -- 2.2.6 On Animals and their Affinity with Humankind(?) (PPetr. 2.49e (= PLit.Lond. 159a) [MP³ 2593]) -- 2.3 Dialogues on Literature -- 2.3.1 Satyrus' Life of Euripides (POxy. 9.1176 [MP³ 1456]) -- 2.3.2 Dialogues on Homeric Topics (PGiss.Univ. 4.39, PLit.Lond. 160, PSchub. 4 [MP³ 1215, 1214, 1229]) -- 2.4 Historical Dialogues -- 2.4.1 "Peisistratus' Dialogue" (POxy. 4.664/50.3544 [MP³ 2562]) -- 2.4.2 "Trial of Demades" (PBerol. inv. 13045 [MP³ 2102]) -- 2.5 Dialogized Anecdotes -- 2.5.1 Ethical Views of Socrates (PHibeh 182 [MP³ 2084]) -- 2.5.2 Anecdotes about Diogenes the Cynic (PVindob. G 29946 [MP³ 1987]) -- 2.5.3 Conversation between Stilpo of Megara and Metrocles(?) (POxy. 52.3655 [MP³ 2592.200]) -- 2.6 School Compositions -- 2.6.1 Alexander the Great and Gymnosophists (PBerol. inv.13044 [MP³ 2099]) -- 2.6.2 Prose Animal Fables (PMed. inv. 70.01 recto,MPER 3.30 (= PVindob. inv. G 29813-14) [MP³ 2652.100 and 2652]) -- 2.7 Other Fragments -- 2.7.1 PIen. inv. 660 [MP³ 2584.010] -- 2.7.2 PBerol. inv. 21256 (= BKT 9.160) [MP³ 2099.010] -- 2.7.3 PKöln 9.360 [MP³ 2103.010] -- 2.7.4 PRein.1.5 (= PSorb. inv. 2014) + PBerol. inv. 9869 (= BKT 2.55) [MP³ 2444] -- 2.7.5 PHeid. G inv. 28 + PGraec.Mon. 21 [MP³ 1389.100,previously 2560 + 2561] -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3. Dialogue in the Academy -- 3.1 Introductory Remarks -- 3.2 Heraclides of Pontus -- 3.3 Speusippus -- 3.4 Eudoxus of Cnidus -- 3.5 Xenocrates -- 3.6 Crantor 1 -- 3.7 The New Academy -- 3.8 Conclusion -- 4. Platonic Dubia and the Appendix Platonica -- 4.1 Introductory Remarks -- 4.2 Selected Dubia in the Thrasyllan Canon -- 4.2.1 The Epinomis -- 4.2.2 Hipparchus or The Lover of Gain -- 4.2.3 Minos or On Law -- 4.2.4 Theages or On Philosophy -- 4.2.5 Cleitophon or Exhortation -- 4.2.6 Alcibiades II or On Prayer -- 4.2.7 Rival Lovers or On Philosophy -- 4.3 Dialogues from the Appendix Platonica -- 4.3.1 Sisyphus -- 4.3.2 Eryxias -- 4.3.3 On Justice -- 4.3.4 On Virtue -- 4.3.5 Demodocus -- 4.3.6 Axiochus -- 4.3.7 Halcyon -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5. Aristotle and Peripatetics -- 5.1 Introductory Remarks -- 5.2 Aristotle -- 5.3 Theophrastus -- 5.4 Clearchus of Soli -- 5.5 Dicaearchus of Messana -- 5.6 Aristoxenus of Tarentum -- 5.7 Demetrius of Phaleron and Chamaeleon of Heraclea -- 5.8 Praxiphanes of Mytilene -- 5.9 Prytanis and Hieronymus of Rhodes, Aristo of Ceos, Satyrus of Callatis -- 5.10 Conclusion -- 6. Other Schools and Authors -- 6.1 Introductory Remarks -- 6.2 Megarians -- 6.3 Cyrenaics -- 6.4 Cynics -- 6.5 Stoics -- 6.6 Epicureans -- 6.7 Timon of Phlius -- 6.8 Eratosthenes of Cyrene -- 6.9 The Tablet of Cebes -- 6.10 Philo of Alexandria -- 6.11 Conclusion -- Epilogue -- References -- Index Locorum -- Index of Greek Terms -- General Index |
| Summary |
The book re-examines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century bce and the mid-first century ce-that is, roughly from Plato's death to the death of Philo of Alexandria. Although the genre of dialogue in antiquity has attracted a growing interest in the past two decades, the time covered in the book has remained overlooked and unresearched, with scholars believing that for much of this period the dialogue went through a period of decline and was revived only in Roman times. The book carefully reassesses post-Platonic and Hellenistic evidence and studies the employment of the dialogue in the Academy and by authors of the pseudo-Platonica, by Aristotle and his followers, as well as in other intellectual environments, from the Minor Socratic schools of the Megarians and Cyrenaics, to the major Hellenistic traditions-the Cynics, Stoics, and Epicureans-and from Timon of Phlius and Eratosthenes of Cyrene to Philo of Alexandria and Tablet of Cebes. It also collects and examines papyri fragments of dialogues, which have never been discussed in this context. The book argues that dialogues and texts creatively interacting with dialogic conventions were composed throughout Hellenistic times, and proposes to reconceptualize the imperial period dialogue as evidence not of a resurgence, but of continuity in this literary tradition; it therefore challenges the narrative of the dialogue's decline and subsequent revival, postulating, instead, the genre's unbroken continuity from the Classical period to the Roman Empire |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed May 22, 2023) |
| Subject |
Dialogues, Greek -- History and criticism
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Dialogues, Greek.
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Dialogues, Greek
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191914621 |
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0191914622 |
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