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Title Speeches for the Dead : Essays on Plato's Menexenus / Harold Parker and Jan Maximilian Robitzsch
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
Series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Band 368
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 368.
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction / Parker, Harold / Robitzsch, Jan Maximilian -- Plato's Funeral Oration: The Motive of the Menexenus / Kahn, Charles H. -- Reading the Menexenus Intertextually / Zelcer, Mark -- On the Structure of Plato's Menexenus / Turner, Jeffrey S. -- Improvisatory Rhetoric in the Menexenus / Pappas, Nickolas -- The Rhetoric of Natural Law in Plato's Menexenus / Marrin, Brian -- A Strange Migration from the Menexenus to the Laws / Parker, Harold -- Does the political regime feed and rear the citizens? Trophē in Plato's Menexenus and his other political dialogues / Helmer, Étienne -- Ethnic Identity and Its Political Consequences in the Menexenus / Robitzsch, Jan Maximilian -- Bibliography
Summary The Menexenus, in spite of the dearth of scholarly attention it has traditionally received compared to other Platonic texts, is an important dialogue for any consideration of Plato's views on political philosophy, history, and rhetoric - to say nothing of the dialogue's contribution to the study of civic ideology and institutions, natural law theory, and Plato's notion of race. Speeches for the Dead unites the contributions of scholars working on diverse aspects of the dialogue, growing out of a one-day workshop on the same subject at the University of Pennsylvania organized by the editors. In offering a variety of perspectives on the Menexenus, the volume is the very first of its kind in any language. In addition, the volume contains an up-to-date bibliography of scholarship in English, French, German, and Italian. This makes the book a definitive guide and ideal starting point for advanced students and scholars looking for further information about the dialogue
Analysis Menexenus
Plato
funeral oration
historiography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2018)
Subject Plato. Menexenus.
SUBJECT Menexenus (Plato) fast
Subject Rhetoric, Ancient.
Rhetoric -- Philosophy.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
Rhetoric, Ancient
Rhetoric -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Parker, Harold (Harold Graham), editor.
Robitzsch, Jan Maximilian, editor
ISBN 9783110575897
3110575892
3110573970
9783110573978