Plato and the traditions of ancient literature [electronic resource] : the silent stream / Richard Hunter.
Hunter, R. L. (Richard L.)
2012
PA4291 .H85 2012eb
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Title Plato and the traditions of ancient literature [electronic resource] : the silent stream / Richard Hunter.
Author Hunter, R. L. (Richard L.)
ISBN 9781139224505 (electronic bk.)
1139224506 (electronic bk.)
9781107012929
1107012929
9781139217996
Publication Details Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 279 p.)
Call Number PA4291 .H85 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 184
Summary "Exploring both how Plato engaged with existing literary forms and how later literature then created 'classics' out of some of Plato's richest works, this book includes chapters on such subjects as rewritings of the Apology and re-imaginings of Socrates' defence, Plato's rich style and the criticisms it attracted and how Petronius and Apuleius threaded Plato into their richly comic texts. The scene for these case studies is set through a thorough examination of how the tradition constructed the relationship between Plato and Homer, of how Plato adapted poetic forms of imagery to his philosophical project in the Republic, to shared techniques of representation between poet and philosopher and to foreshadowings of later modes of criticism in Plato's Ion. This is a major contribution to Platonic studies, to the history of Platonic reception from the fourth century BC to the third century AD and to the literature of the Second Sophistic"-- Provided by publisher.
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1. Introduction: tracing Plato
2. Homer and Plato
3. Metamorphoses of the Apology
4. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the style of the Phaedrus
5. Plato as classic: Plutarch's Amatorius
6. Playing with Plato.

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