The people of Plato : a prosopography of Plato and other Socratics / Debra Nails.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nails, Debra, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato--Friends and associates.

Plato.

Socrates--Friends and associates.

Socrates.

Friends and associates.

Athens (Greece)--Biography.

Athens (Greece).

Plato. Dialogues.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xlviii, 414 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, IN : Hackett Pub., [2002]

Contents:

Modern Works xv

Ancient Authors, Texts, and Translations xvii

On Ancient Dates xli

Ages and Dating Conventions xliii

Onomastics xliv

Primer of Platonic Prosopography 1

Acumenus

Alcibiades III 1

Excursus 1 The Sacrilegious Crimes of 415 17

Alcibiades IV

Callixenus 20

Excursus 2 The Arginusae Trial of 406 79

Cambyses

Critias IV 82

Excursus 3 The Rule of the Thirty 404/3 111

Crito

Patrocles 114

Excursus 4 The Amnesty of 403-402 219

Pausanias

Zopyrus 222

Appendix I. Dramatic Dates, Characters, Setting and Style 307

Dialogues with Definite Dramatic Dates 308

Dialogues with Problematic Dramatic Dates 324

Dialogues without Dramatic Dates 327

Letters 329

Appendix II. Peripheral Persons 331

Appendix III. Athenian Affiliation: Demes, Phratries, Clans et al. 347

Appendix IV. Chronology of the Period of the Platonic Dialogues and Letters 357.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-400) and index.

ISBN:

0872205649

OCLC:

49719219