UID:
almahu_9949361303302882
Format:
1 online resource (416 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781350227262
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9781350227255
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury Handbooks
Content:
"Essential reference text on the life, thought and writings of Plato, using over 160 short, accessible articles to cover a complete range of topics for both the first-time student and seasoned scholar of Plato and ancient philosophy. Organised into five parts illuminating Plato's life, the whole of the Dialogues attributed to him, the Dialogues' literary features, the concepts and themes explored within them and Plato's reception via his influence on subsequent philosophers and the various interpretations of his work. This fully updated second edition includes 19 newly commissioned entries on topics ranging across comedy, tragedy, Xenophon, metatheatre, gender, musical theory, animals, Orphism, political theory, religion, time, Hellenistic philosophy, and post-Platonic ancient commentaries. Revisions to the majority of articles as well as 12 articles with substantially revised references, and 8 re-written articles cement this comprehensive new edition as the go-to reference text. Reflecting the growing diversity of Plato scholarship across the world, this edition includes contributions from a wide range of scholars who enrich the field and provide students and scholars with a vital resource for study and reference."--
Note:
Includes index.
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Part I: Plato's Life, Historical, Literary and Philosophic Context Life of Plato Aristophanes and intellectuals Education Eleatics Isocrates and Logography Orality and Literacy Poetry (epic and lyric) Presocratics Pythagoreans Rhetoric and speech-making Aocrates (historical) Socratics other than Plato) Sophists Comedy (in Plato's formation) Tragedy (in Plato's formation) Xenophon -- Part II: The Dialogues. The Platonic Corpus and Manuscript Tradition Alcibiades Apology Charmides Clitophon Cratylus Crito Dubious and spurious dialogues (Alcibiades II, Hipparchus, Minos, Rival Lovers, Axiochus, Definitions, On Justice, On Virtue, Demodocus, Eryxias, Sisyphus) Euthydemus Euthyphro Gorgias Hippias Major Hippias Minor Ion Laches Laws Letters Lysis Menexenus Meno Parmenides Phaedo Phaedrus Philebus Politicus (Statesman) Protagoras Republic Sophist Symposium Theaetetus Theages Timaeus-Critias -- Part III: Special Features of the Dialogues Anonymity Characters Drama History Humor Irony Language Literary composition Musical structure Myths and stories Pedagogical structure Pedimental structure Play and seriousness Proleptic composition Socrates (the character) Comedy Metatheatre Tragedy -- Part IV: Concepts, Themes and Topics treated in the Dialogues Aesthetics Akrasia Antilogy and eristic Appearance and reality Art Beauty Being and becoming Causality Cave City Cosmos Daimon Death Desire Dialectic Divided Line Education Elenchus Epistemology Ethics Excellence Forms Friendship Goodness Happiness Image Imitation Inspiration Intellectualism Justice Language Law Logic logos Account Love Madness and possession Mathematics Medicine Method Music Myth Nature Non-propositional knowledge One, the Ontology Paederasteia Participation Perception and sensation Philosophy and the philosopher Piety Pleasure Poetry Reason Recollection Rhetoric Self-knowledge Sophists Soul Sun simile Theology Vision Women Writing Animals Aporia Eschatology (afterlife, rewards, and punishments) Gender Musical Theory Mysteries Orphism Political theory Religion Time and Eternity -- Part V: Later Reception, Interpretation and Influence Early Ancient Commentary Later Ancient Commentary The Ancient World Ancient Hermeneutics Aristotle and Plato Academy of Athens, Ancient History of Ancient Jewish Platonism Neoplatonism and its diaspora The Middle Ages and Renaissance Medieval Islamic Platonism Medieval Jewish Platonism Medieval Christian Platonism Renaissance Platonism Cambridge Platonism Modern and Contemporary Philosophy Early modern philosophy: from Descartes to Berkeley Nineteenth-century idealisms Nineteenth Century Plato scholarship Developmentalism Compositional chronology Analytic approaches Vlastosian approaches Continental approaches Straussian approaches Plato's 'Unwritten doctrines''Esoterism The Tübingen Approach Anti-Platonism, ancient to modern Hellenisitic Philosophy -- Bibliography -- -- Index of Names (other than Plato and Socrates) -- Index of Topics.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781350227231
Language:
English
Keywords:
Handbooks and manuals.
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Electronic books.
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Handbooks and manuals
DOI:
10.5040/9781350227262
URL:
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