Research Catalog

Title

Plato and myth : studies on the use and status of Platonic myths / edited by Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée, Francisco J. Gonzalez.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Collobert, Catherine.
• Destrée, Pierre.
• Gonzalez, Francisco J., 1963-

Description

viii, 476 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Mnemosyne. Supplements ; 337

Uniform Title

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 337.

Subject

• Plato > Congresses
• Myth > Congresses

Note

• Based chiefly on a conference held in May 2008 at the University of Ottawa.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-453) and index.

Contents

Plato's exoteric myths / Glenn W. Most -- Myth and interpretation / Monique Dixsaut -- Literal and deeper meanings in Platonic myths / Harold Tarrant -- The freedom of Platonic myth / G.R.F. Ferrari -- The Platonic art of myth-making: myth as informative Phantasma / Catherine Collobert -- Spectacles from Hades. On Plato's myths and allegories in the Republic / Pierre Destrée -- The pragmatics of "Myth" in Plato's Dialogues: the story of Prometheus in the Protagoras / Claude Calame -- Religion and morality. elements of Plato's anthropology in the myth of Prometheus (PROTAGORAS, 320D-322D) / Gerd Van Riel -- Whip scars on the naked soul: myth and Elenchos in Plato's Gorgias / Radcliffe G. Edmonds -- The status of the myth of the Gorgias, or: taking Plato seriously / Christopher Rowe -- The rivers of Tartarus: Plato's geography of dying and coming-back-to-life / Elizabeth Pender -- Choice of lire and self-transformation in the myth of Er / Annie Larivée -- Combating oblivion: the myth of Er as both philosophy's challenge and inspiration / Francisco J. Gonzalez -- The myth of Theuth in the Phaedrus / Christopher Moore -- Myth and truth in Plato's Phaedrus / Franco Trabattoni -- Theriomorphism and the composite soul in Plato / Kathryn Morgan -- Myth, image and likeness in Plato's Timaeus / Elsa Grasso -- Why is the Timaeus called an Eikôs Muthos and an Eikôs Logos? / Luc Brisson -- Why two epochs of human history? On the myth of the Statesman / Christoph Horn -- The Delphic oracle on Socrates' wisdom: a myth? / Louis-André Dorion.

Call Number

JFE 12-4146

ISBN

• 9789004218666 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004218661 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9789004224360
• 900422436X

LCCN

2011042778

OCLC

758393919

Title

Plato and myth : studies on the use and status of Platonic myths / edited by Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée, Francisco J. Gonzalez.

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series

Mnemosyne. Supplements ; 337

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 337.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-453) and index.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Collobert, Catherine.

Destrée, Pierre.

Gonzalez, Francisco J., 1963-

Research Call Number

JFE 12-4146