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Plato and the traditions of ancient literature : the silent stream
- Title
- Plato and the traditions of ancient literature : the silent stream / Richard Hunter.
- Author
- Hunter, R. L. (Richard L.)
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 12-3229 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- vii, 279 p.; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-3229
- ISBN
- 9781107012929 (hardback)
- 1107012929 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011042603
- OCLC
- YBP 2011042603
- Author
- Hunter, R. L. (Richard L.)
- Title
- Plato and the traditions of ancient literature : the silent stream / Richard Hunter.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-3229