Plato and the traditions of ancient literature [electronic resource] : the silent stream / Richard Hunter.

Plato and the traditions of ancient literature [electronic resource] : the silent stream / Richard Hunter.

9781139224505 (electronic bk.)
1139224506 (electronic bk.)
9781107012929
1107012929
9781139217996

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2012]

©2012

English

1 online resource (vii, 279 pages)

PA4291 .H85 2012eb

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"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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