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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.

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Author:   Alessandro Stavru ,  Christopher Moore
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   1.567kg
ISBN:  

9789004321915

ISBN 10:   9004321918
Pages:   934
Publication Date:   07 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue: An Overview from the First-Generation Socratics to Neoplatonism  Christopher Moore and Alessandro Stavru Around Socrates A Sage on the Stage: Socrates and Athenian Old Comedy  Jacques A. Bromberg Aristophanes’ Iconic Socrates  Andrea Capra Protagorean Socrates, Socratic Protagoras: A Narrative Strategy from Aristophanes to Plato  Michele Corradi Isocrates as a Reader of Socratic Dialogues  David J. Murphy The Origins of the Socratic Dialogue: Plato, Xenophon, and the Others  James M. Redfield The Immediate Socratic Circle On the Dialectical Character of Antisthenes’ Speeches Ajax and Odysseus in the Context of Socratic Literature  Vladislav Suvák Socratism and Eleaticism in Euclides of Megara  Aldo Brancacci Aristippus on Freedom, Autonomy, and the Pleasurable Life  Kristian Urstad Shock, Erotics, Plagiarism, and Fraud: Aspects of Aeschines of Sphettus’ Philosophy  Claudia Mársico Phaedo of Elis: The Biography, Zopyrus, and His Intellectual Profile  Danilo Di Lanzo Plato Plato and the Socratics  Luc Brisson Philosopher Socrates? Philosophy at the Time of Socrates and the Reformed Philosophia of Plato  Livio Rossetti A Literary Challenge: How to Represent Socrates’ Daimonion  Stefano Jedrkiewicz The Logical Structure of Socrates’ Expert-Analogies  Petter Sandstad Crying for Help: Socrates as Silenus in the Euthydemus  Michael Erler Socrates and Natural Philosophy: The Testimony of Plato’s Phaedo  Jörn Müller Bios Praktikos and Bios Theôrêtikos in Plato’s Gorgias  Ivan Jordović The Socratic Dubia  Harold Tarrant Notes on Lovers  Sandra Peterson Xenophon How to Defend the Defense of Socrates? From the Apology to Memorabilia Book 1  Pierre Pontier Nature, Culture and the Rule of the Good in Xenophon’s Socratic Theory of Friendship: Memorabilia Book 2  Gabriel Danzig From Generals to Gluttony: Memorabilia Book 3  David Johnson Xenophon’s Socratic Education in Memorabilia Book 4  Christopher Moore Fundamental Parallels between Socrates’ and Ischomachus’ Positions in the Oeconomicus  Louis-André Dorion Aphrodite and Philophrosyne: Xenophon’s Symposium between Athenian and Spartan Paradigms  Maria Consiglia Alvino Xenophon’s Hiero: Hiding Socrates to Reform Tyranny  Federico Zuolo Xenophon’s Philosophical Approach to Writing: Socratic Elements in the Non-Socratic Works  Noreen Humble Later Reception Aristotle on Socrates  Nicholas Smith Aristoxenus on Socrates  Alessandro Stavru Socratic Protreptic and Epicurus: Healing through Philosophy  Jan Erik Heßler From Competitor to Hero: The Stoics on Socrates  Robert Bees Socrates and Alcibiades as “Satiric Heroes:” The Socrates of Persius  Diego De Brasi Plutarch’s Reception of Socrates  Geert Roskam “A Man of Outstanding Perfection”: Apuleius’ Admiration for Socrates  Friedemann Drews Socrates in Maximus of Tyre  M.B. Trapp Socrates in the Ancient Biographical Tradition: From the Anonymous Phib. 182 to Diogenes Laertius  Tiziano Dorandi An Embodiment of Intellectual Freedom? Socrates in Libanius  Heinz-Günther Nesselrath Political Philosopher or Saviour of Souls? Socrates in Themistius and Julian the Emperor  Maria Carmen De Vita Proclus on Socratic Ignorance, Knowledge, and Irony  Danielle A. Layne Index

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''Alessandro Stavru and Christopher Moore have produced a substantial contribution to the literature on Socrates and Socratic literature. Their edited collection includes around forty chapters on a wide range of Socratic topics. Following an overview chapter by the editors, the volume is divided into five parts: the contemporary Athenian representation of Socrates and the Socratic dialogue, the Socratic circle, Plato, Xenophon, and the later ancient reception of Socrates. This is a rich and stimulating resource which will have something to offer anyone with an interest in Socrates.'' Jenny Bryan, in Greece & Rome 67.1: 113-118 (april 2022)

Author Information

Alessandro Stavru, Ph.D. (2003) Naples, holds a teaching appointment at Bocconi University (Milan). He has published extensively on Socrates, the Socratics, ancient and modern aesthetics, and the History of Classical Scholarship. He has organized with Livio Rossetti the series of Socratica conferences and edited the Proceedings arising from them (2008, 2010, 2013). He belongs to the Editorial Board of the International Socrates Studies (ISS). Christopher Moore, Ph.D. (2008) University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the Pennsylvania State University, and has written frequently on Heraclitus, Aristophanes, Socrates and the Socratics, and Plato, including Socrates and Self-Knowledge (Cambridge, 2015).

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