Plato and myth : studies on the use and status of Platonic myths /
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Plato and myth : studies on the use and status of Platonic myths /

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Other Authors: Collobert, Catherine, Destrée, Pierre, Gonzalez, Francisco J., 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 337.
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Table of 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.