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The archaeology of the soul : Platonic readings of ancient poetry and philosophy / by Seth Benardete ; edited by Ronna Burger and Michael Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benardete, Seth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato.
- Classical philology.
- Poetry, Ancient--History and criticism.
- Poetry, Ancient.
- Plato--Influence.
- Philosophical literature--History and criticism.
- Philosophical literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 383 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- South Bend, Ind. : St. Augustine's Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- 1 The Poet-Merchant and the Stranger from the Sea 1
- 2 Hesiod's Works and Days: A First Reading 7
- 3 On Reading Pindar Platonically 25
- 4 The Crimes and Arts of Prometheus 30
- 5 Aeschylus' Agamemnon: The Education of the Chorus 41
- 6 The Plan of Odysseus and the Plot of the Philoctetes 58
- 7 Some Misquotations of Homer in Plato 75
- 8 XPH and ΔEI in Plato and Others 81
- 9 The Right, the True, and the Beautiful 93
- 10 Plato Sophist 223 b 1-7 101
- 11 Eidos and Diaeresis in Plato's Statesman 112
- 12 On Plato's Timaeus and Timaeus' Science Fiction 141
- 13 On Heraclitus 183
- 14 "Night and Day, ...": Parmenides 200
- 15 Plato's Parmenides: A Sketch 229
- 16 Socrates and Plato: The Dialectics of Eros 244
- 17 Freedom: Grace and Necessity 261
- 18 Aristotle, DeAnima III.3-5 272
- 19 Cicero's De Legibus I: Its Plan and Intention 281
- 20 Aeneid 294
- 21 Horace C.I.xv 301
- 22 Metamorphosis and Conversion: Apuleius' Metamorphoses 305
- 23 The Grammar of Being. Review of Charles Kahn, The Verb "Be " in Ancient Greek 324
- 24 Review of Michèle Giraudeau, Les notions juridiques et sociales chez Hérodote. Études sur le vocabulaire 333
- 25 The Play of Truth. Review of R. B. Rutherford, The Art of Plato: Ten Essays in Platonic Interpretation 336
- 26 Plato, True and False. Review of Plato: Complete Works, edited by John M. Cooper, associate editor D.S. Hutchinson 341
- 27 Review of John Dudley, Gott und "Theoria " bei Aristoteles: Die metaphysische Grundlage der Nikomachishen Ethik 346
- 28 Review of Michael Tanner, Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction 347
- 29 Derrida and Plato 351
- 30 Leo Strauss' The City and Man 359
- 31 Memorial Speech for Leo Strauss 375.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781587310331
- 1587310333
- OCLC:
- 422761162
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