Ascent to the Beautiful : Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium /: Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: William H. F. Altman.
• Authors: Altman, William H. F
• Contents: Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface: Plato the Teacher and Reading Order Introduction: Schleiermacher and Plato 1 <span style="font-style:italic;">Protagoras as Gateway §1. <span style="font-style:italic;">Protagoras before <span style="font-style:italic;">Alcibiades §2. Xenophon before Plato §3. Taking the Measure of <span style="font-style:italic;">Protagoras §4. Interpreting the Misinterpretation of Simonides 2 The Elementary Dialogues: the <span style="font-style:italic;">Alcibiades dyad and <span style="font-style:italic;">Lovers §5. The Ε ὖ Πράττειν Fallacy <span style="font-style:italic;"> §6. The More Perfect Mirror §7. Between <span style="font-style:italic;">Alcibiades and <span style="font-style:italic;">Lovers 3 <span style="font-style:italic;">Hippias Major : Between <span style="font-style:italic;">Protagoras and <span style="font-style:italic;">Symposium §8. Reading Order and Authenticity §9. Plato’s <span style="font-style:italic;">pons asinorum §10. Deceiving with the Double 4 The Musical Dialogues: <span style="font-style:italic;">Hippias Minor, <span style="font-style:italic;">Ion, and <span style="font-style:italic;">Menexenus §11. Deception Defended? §12. Inspired Interpretation? §13. Rhetoric Rejected? 5 <span style="font-style:italic;">Symposium as τέλος §14. Integrating <span style="font-style:italic;">Symposium §15. History and Tragedy §16. Alcestis, Codrus, and Achilles §17. Catching Sight of the Sea Epilogue: Imagining Plato’s Academy Bibliography Index <span style="font-style:italic;">Index locorum <span style="font-style:italic;">Index verborum About the Author
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (618 pages)
• Subjects: History: Ancient / Greece; Philosophy: Essays
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793615961; 1793615969
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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