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Book SynopsisContains aspects which examine vital aspects of Plato's many methods, considering his dialogues in relation to Thucydides and Homer, narrative strategies and medical practice, images and metaphors. This book places the Platonic dialogues in an illuminating historical context.
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Gary Alan Scott; 1. Plato's Book of Images by Nicholas D. Smith; 2. ""To Say What is Most Necessary"": Expositional and Philosophical Practice in Thucydides and Plato by Phil Hopkins; 3. Medicine, Philosophy, and Socrates's Proposals to Glaucon about Gumnastike in Republic 403b - 412b by Mark Moes; 4. Know Thyself: Socrates as Storyteller, by Anne-Marie Bowery; 5. Homeric Methodos in Plato's Socratic Dialogues by Bernard Freydberg; 6. Of Psychic Maieutics and Dialogical Bondage in Plato's Theaetetus by Benjamin J. Grazzini; 7. Plato's Different Device: Reconciling the One and the Many in the Philebus by Martha Kendal Woodruff; 8. Is There Method in This Madness? Context, Play, and Laughter in Plato's Symposium and Republic by Christopher P. Long; 9. Traveling with Socrates: Dialectic in the Phaedo and Protagoras by Gerard Kuperus; 10. In Plato's Image by Jill Gordon; Appendix: Dramatic Dates of Plato's Dialogues.
