Overview

Plato and Xenophon are the two students of Socrates whose works have come down to us in their entirety. Their works have been studied by countless scholars over the generations; but rarely have they been brought into direct contact, outside of their use in relation to the Socratic problem. This volume changes that, by offering a collection of articles containing comparative analyses of almost the entire range of Plato's and Xenophon's writings, approaching them from literary, philosophical and historical perspectives.

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Author:   Gabriel Danzig ,  David Johnson ,  Donald Morrison
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   417
Weight:   1.196kg
ISBN:  

9789004369016

ISBN 10:   9004369015
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   14 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction to the Comparative Study of Plato and Xenophon  Gabriel Danzig Introduction to This Volume  David Johnson Part 1 Methods Comparative Exegesis and the Socratic Problem  Louis-André Dorion Xenophon’s Intertextual Socrates  David Johnson Division and Collection: A New Paradigm for the Relationship between Plato and Xenophon  William H.F. Altman Xenophon and the Socratics  James Redfield Xenophon on “Philosophy” and Socrates  Christopher Moore Xenophon and the Elenchos: A Formal and Comparative Analysis  Genevieve Lachance Part 2 Ethics Laughter in Plato’s and Xenophon’s Symposia  Katarzyna Jazdzewska Socrates’ Physiognomy: Plato and Xenophon in Comparison  Alessandro Stavru Xenophon’s Triad of Socratic Virtues and the Poverty of Socrates  Lowell Edmunds Pity or Pardon: Responding to Intentional Wrongdoing in Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle  Roslyn Weiss Mechanisms of Pleasure according to Xenophon’s Socrates  Olga Chernyakhovskaya Plato, Aristotle and Xenophon on the Ends of Virtue  Gabriel Danzig Socrates Erotikos: Mutuality, Role Reversal and Erotic Paideia in Xenophon’s and Plato’s Symposia  Francesca Pentassuglio Socratic Economics and the Psychology of Money  T.A. van Berkel Part 3 From Friendship to Politics Xenophon’s Conception of Friendship in Memorabilia 2.6 (with Reference to Plato’s Lysis)  Melina Tamiolaki Socrates’ Attitude towards Politics in Xenophon and Plato  Fiorenza Bevilacqua Plato and Xenophon on the Different Reasons that Socrates Always Obeys the Law  Louis-André Dorion Plato’s Statesman and Xenophon’s Cyrus  Carol Atack Part 4 History Sparta in Xenophon and Plato  Noreen Humble Plato, Xenophon and Persia  C.J. Tuplin The Enemies of Hunting in Xenophon’s Cynegeticus  David Thomas Index

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"""This volume is a landmark of how far the new wave in Socratic studies has traveled. At the same time, it presents an opportunity to assess how much of the remaining so-called Socratic problem resists dissolution. This will be a collection of interest to all scholars working in Socratic studies and a necessary addition to any research library."" - Vincent Renzi, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2019.06.32 ""[T]hese essays offer much to the students of Xenophon, Plato and other Socratics. (...) Morrison provides a helpful index of places. The result well justifies the price."" - David J. Murphy, in: CJ-Online, 2019.11.03 ""[T]his volume, Plato and Xenophon, has the great merit of opening a number of paths to the investigation of the subject and overcoming a number of inadvisable simplifications, all that while an impressive 'Xenophon Renaissance' is flourishing."" - Livio Rossetti, in: Scripta Classica Israelica 40, 2021"

This volume is a landmark of how far the new wave in Socratic studies has traveled. At the same time, it presents an opportunity to assess how much of the remaining so-called Socratic problem resists dissolution. This will be a collection of interest to all scholars working in Socratic studies and a necessary addition to any research library. Vincent Renzi Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.06.32

This volume is a landmark of how far the new wave in Socratic studies has traveled. At the same time, it presents an opportunity to assess how much of the remaining so-called Socratic problem resists dissolution. This will be a collection of interest to all scholars working in Socratic studies and a necessary addition to any research library. - Vincent Renzi, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2019.06.32 [T]hese essays offer much to the students of Xenophon, Plato and other Socratics. (...) Morrison provides a helpful index of places. The result well justifies the price. - David J. Murphy, in: CJ-Online, 2019.11.03

Author Information

Gabriel Danzig, PhD (1997) Hebrew University, Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of Socratic Dialogues (Heb.) and Apologizing for Socrates (Eng.) and many articles on Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle. David Johnson PhD (1996) Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures, and International Trade – Classics Section, College of Liberal Arts, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Dave is the author of Socrates and Athens (CUP) and numerous articles on Xenophon. Donald Morrison, Ph.D. (1983) Princeton, is Professor of Philosophy at Rice University. He is the author of Bibliography of Editions, Translations, and Scholarly Commentary on Xenophon's Socratic Writings, 1600-present (Mathesis, 1988), and many articles on Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle. Contributors are: William H.F. Altman, Carol Atack, Fiorenza Bevilacqua, Olga Chernyakhovskaya, Gabriel Danzig, Louis-André Dorion, Lowell Edmunds, Noreen Humble, Katarzyna Jazdzewska, David Johnson, Genevieve Lachance, Christopher Moore, Francesca Pentassuglio, James Redfield, Alessandro Stavru, Melina Tamiolaki, David Thomas, C. J. Tuplin, T. A. van Berkel, Roslyn Weiss.

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