Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue

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• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 942
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue assembles the most complete range of studies on Socrates and the Socratic dialogue. It focuses on portrayals of Socrates, whether as historical figure or protagonist of 'Socratic dialogues', in extant and fragmentary texts from Classical Athens through Late Antiquity. Special attention is paid to the evolving power and texture of the Socratic icon as it adopted old and new uses in philosophy, biography, oratory, and literature. Chapters in this volume focus on Old Comedy, Sophistry, the first-generation Socratics including Plato and Xenophon, Aristotle and Aristoxenus, Epicurus and Stoicism, Cicero and Persius, Plutarch, Apuleius and Maximus, Diogenes Laertius, Libanius, Themistius, Julian, and Proclus.

✦ Table of Contents

‎Contents
‎Abbreviations
‎Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue: An Overview from the First-Generation Socratics to Neoplatonism (Moore and Stavru)
‎Part 1. Around Socrates
‎A Sage on the Stage: Socrates and Athenian Old Comedy (Bromberg)
‎Aristophanes’ Iconic Socrates (Capra)
‎Protagorean Socrates, Socratic Protagoras: A Narrative Strategy from Aristophanes to Plato (Corradi)
‎Isocrates as a Reader of Socratic Dialogues (Murphy)
‎The Origins of the Socratic Dialogue: Plato, Xenophon, and the Others (Redfield)
‎Part 2. The Immediate Socratic Circle
‎On the Dialectical Character of Antisthenes’ Speeches Ajax and Odysseus (Suvák)
‎Socratism and Eleaticism in Euclides of Megara (Brancacci)
‎Aristippus on Freedom, Autonomy, and the Pleasurable Life (Urstad)
‎Shock, Erotics, Plagiarism, and Fraud: Aspects of Aeschines of Sphettus’ Philosophy (Mársico)
‎Phaedo of Elis: The Biography, Zopyrus, and His Intellectual Profile (Di Lanzo)
‎Part 3. Plato
‎Plato and the Socratics (Brisson)
‎Philosopher Socrates? Philosophy at the Time of Socrates and the Reformed Philosophia of Plato (Rossetti)
‎A Literary Challenge: How to Represent Socrates’ Daimonion (Jedrkiewicz)
‎The Logical Structure of Socrates’ Expert-Analogies (Sandstad)
‎Crying for Help: Socrates as Silenus in the Euthydemus (Erler)
‎Socrates and Natural Philosophy: The Testimony of Plato’s Phaedo (Müller)
‎Bios Praktikos and Bios Theôrêtikos in Plato’s Gorgias (Jordović)
‎The Socratic Dubia (Tarrant)
‎Notes on Lovers (Peterson)
‎Part 4. Xenophon
‎How to Defend the Defense of Socrates? From the Apology to Memorabilia Book 1 (Pontier)
‎Nature, Culture and the Rule of the Good in Xenophon’s Socratic Theory of Friendship: Memorabilia Book 2 (Danzig)
‎From Generals to Gluttony: Memorabilia Book 3 (Johnson)
‎Xenophon’s Socratic Education in Memorabilia Book 4 (Moore)
‎Fundamental Parallels between Socrates’ and Ischomachus’ Positions in the Oeconomicus (Dorion)
‎Aphroditê and Philophrosynê: Xenophon’s Symposium between Athenian and Spartan Paradigms (Alvino)
‎Xenophon’s Hiero: Hiding Socrates to Reform Tyranny (Zuolo)
‎Xenophon’s Philosophical Approach to Writing: Socratic Elements in the Non-Socratic Works (Humble)
‎Part 5. Later Reception
‎Aristotle on Socrates (Smith)
‎Aristoxenus on Socrates (Stavru)
‎Socratic Protreptic and Epicurus: Healing through Philosophy (Heßler)
‎From Competitor to Hero: The Stoics on Socrates (Bees)
‎Cicero and the Socratic Dialogue: Between Frankness and Friendship (Off. 1. 132–137) (Renaud)
‎Socrates and Alcibiades as “Satiric Heroes”: The Socrates of Persius (De Brasi)
‎Plutarch’s Reception of Socrates (Roskam)
‎“A Man of Outstanding Perfection”: Apuleius’ Admiration for Socrates (Drews)
‎Socrates in Maximus of Tyre (Trapp)
‎Socrates in the Ancient Biographical Tradition: From the Anonymous PHib. 182 to Diogenes Laertius (Dorandi)
‎An Embodiment of Intellectual Freedom? Socrates in Libanius (Nesselrath)
‎Political Philosopher or Savior of Souls? Socrates in Themistius and Julian the Emperor (De Vita)
‎Proclus on Socratic Ignorance, Knowledge, and Irony (Layne)
‎Index of Passages
‎Index of Ancient Names
‎Index of Modern Names