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Book SynopsisSocrates and the Socratic Dialogue assembles the most complete range of studies on Socrates and the Socratic dialogue. It focuses on portrayals of Socrates, whether as historical figure or protagonist of ‘Socratic dialogues’, in extant and fragmentary texts from Classical Athens through Late Antiquity. Special attention is paid to the evolving power and texture of the Socratic icon as it adopted old and new uses in philosophy, biography, oratory, and literature. Chapters in this volume focus on Old Comedy, Sophistry, the first-generation Socratics including Plato and Xenophon, Aristotle and Aristoxenus, Epicurus and Stoicism, Cicero and Persius, Plutarch, Apuleius and Maximus, Diogenes Laertius, Libanius, Themistius, Julian, and Proclus.
Trade Review''Alessandro Stavru and Christopher Moore have produced a substantial contribution to the literature on Socrates and Socratic literature. Their edited collection includes around forty chapters on a wide range of Socratic topics. Following an overview chapter by the editors, the volume is divided into five parts: the contemporary Athenian representation of Socrates and the Socratic dialogue, the Socratic circle, Plato, Xenophon, and the later ancient reception of Socrates. This is a rich and stimulating resource which will have something to offer anyone with an interest in Socrates.'' Jenny Bryan, in Greece & Rome 67.1: 113-118 (april 2022)
Table of ContentsAbbreviations Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue: An Overview from the First-Generation Socratics to Neoplatonism Christopher Moore and Alessandro Stavru Around Socrates A Sage on the Stage: Socrates and Athenian Old Comedy Jacques A. Bromberg Aristophanes’ Iconic Socrates Andrea Capra Protagorean Socrates, Socratic Protagoras: A Narrative Strategy from Aristophanes to Plato Michele Corradi Isocrates as a Reader of Socratic Dialogues David J. Murphy The Origins of the Socratic Dialogue: Plato, Xenophon, and the Others James M. Redfield The Immediate Socratic Circle On the Dialectical Character of Antisthenes’ Speeches Ajax and Odysseus in the Context of Socratic Literature Vladislav Suvák Socratism and Eleaticism in Euclides of Megara Aldo Brancacci Aristippus on Freedom, Autonomy, and the Pleasurable Life Kristian Urstad Shock, Erotics, Plagiarism, and Fraud: Aspects of Aeschines of Sphettus’ Philosophy Claudia Mársico Phaedo of Elis: The Biography, Zopyrus, and His Intellectual Profile Danilo Di Lanzo Plato Plato and the Socratics Luc Brisson Philosopher Socrates? Philosophy at the Time of Socrates and the Reformed Philosophia of Plato Livio Rossetti A Literary Challenge: How to Represent Socrates’ Daimonion Stefano Jedrkiewicz The Logical Structure of Socrates’ Expert-Analogies Petter Sandstad Crying for Help: Socrates as Silenus in the Euthydemus Michael Erler Socrates and Natural Philosophy: The Testimony of Plato’s Phaedo Jörn Müller Bios Praktikos and Bios Theôrêtikos in Plato’s Gorgias Ivan Jordović The Socratic Dubia Harold Tarrant Notes on Lovers Sandra Peterson Xenophon How to Defend the Defense of Socrates? From the Apology to Memorabilia Book 1 Pierre Pontier Nature, Culture and the Rule of the Good in Xenophon’s Socratic Theory of Friendship: Memorabilia Book 2 Gabriel Danzig From Generals to Gluttony: Memorabilia Book 3 David Johnson Xenophon’s Socratic Education in Memorabilia Book 4 Christopher Moore Fundamental Parallels between Socrates’ and Ischomachus’ Positions in the Oeconomicus Louis-André Dorion Aphrodite and Philophrosyne: Xenophon’s Symposium between Athenian and Spartan Paradigms Maria Consiglia Alvino Xenophon’s Hiero: Hiding Socrates to Reform Tyranny Federico Zuolo Xenophon’s Philosophical Approach to Writing: Socratic Elements in the Non-Socratic Works Noreen Humble Later Reception Aristotle on Socrates Nicholas Smith Aristoxenus on Socrates Alessandro Stavru Socratic Protreptic and Epicurus: Healing through Philosophy Jan Erik Heßler From Competitor to Hero: The Stoics on Socrates Robert Bees Socrates and Alcibiades as “Satiric Heroes:” The Socrates of Persius Diego De Brasi Plutarch’s Reception of Socrates Geert Roskam “A Man of Outstanding Perfection”: Apuleius’ Admiration for Socrates Friedemann Drews Socrates in Maximus of Tyre M.B. Trapp Socrates in the Ancient Biographical Tradition: From the Anonymous Phib. 182 to Diogenes Laertius Tiziano Dorandi An Embodiment of Intellectual Freedom? Socrates in Libanius Heinz-Günther Nesselrath Political Philosopher or Saviour of Souls? Socrates in Themistius and Julian the Emperor Maria Carmen De Vita Proclus on Socratic Ignorance, Knowledge, and Irony Danielle A. Layne Index
