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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Strange Fellows Part I: Friendship, Resistance, and the Question of the Good Chapter 1: Why Socrates and Thrasymachus Become Friends Chapter 2: The Daimonic Soul: On Plato’s Theages Part II: Philosophy and Sophistry: The Limits of ‘Logos’ Chapter 3: Philosophy and Sophistry in Plato’s ‘Euthydemus’ Chapter 4: Socrates Talking to Himself? On the ‘Greater Hippias’ Chapter 5: The Sophist Hippias and the Problem of Polytropia Chapter 6: On Wolves and Dogs: The Eleatic Stranger’s Socratic Turn in the ‘Sophist’ Part III: Imagery, Tragedy, and Tyranny Chapter 7: Philosophers as Painters: On the Corruptibility of the Philosophic Nature in Plato’s ‘Republic’ Chapter 8: Plato’s ‘Apology’ as Tragedy Chapter 9: Sophist and Philosopher in Plato’s Sophist Chapter 10: Socrates’ Odyssean Return: On Plato’s Charmides Part IV: Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Dialogue Chapter 11: Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the Question of Harmony in Plato’s ‘Phaedrus’ Chapter 12: Philosophy in the Perfect Tense: On Plato’s ‘Lovers’ About the Contributors
