Plato and Xenophon : comparative studies / edited by Gabriel Danzig, David Johnson, Donald Morrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Danzig, Gabriel, 1961- editor.

Johnson, David, editor.

Morrison, Donald, editor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature. 0169-8958 ; Volume 417.

Mnemosyne supplements : monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature ; Volume 417

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Xenophon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (686 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

Plato and Xenophon are the two students of Socrates whose works have come down to us in their entirety. Their works have been studied by countless scholars over the generations; but rarely have they been brought into direct contact, outside of their use in relation to the Socratic problem. This volume changes that, by offering a collection of articles containing comparative analyses of almost the entire range of Plato's and Xenophon's writings, approaching them from literary, philosophical and historical perspectives.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction to the Comparative Study of Plato and Xenophon / Gabriel Danzig

Introduction to This Volume / David M. Johnson

Methods

Comparative Exegesis and the Socratic Problem / Louis-André Dorion

Xenophon’s Intertextual Socrates / David M. Johnson

Division and Collection: A New Paradigm for the Relationship between Plato and Xenophon / William H.F. Altman

Xenophon and the Socratics / James M. Redfield

Xenophon on “Philosophy” and Socrates / Christopher Moore

Xenophon and the Elenchos: A Formal and Comparative Analysis / Geneviève Lachance

Ethics

Laughter in Plato’s and Xenophon’s Symposia / Katarzyna Jazdzewska

Socrates’ Physiognomy: Plato and Xenophon in Comparison / Alessandro Stavru

Xenophon’s Triad of Socratic Virtues and the Poverty of Socrates / Lowell Edmunds

Pity or Pardon: Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle on the Appropriate Response to Intentional Wrongdoing / Roslyn Weiss

Mechanisms of Pleasure according to Xenophon’s Socrates / Olga Chernyakhovskaya

Plato, Aristotle and Xenophon on the Ends of Virtue / Gabriel Danzig

Socrates Erotikos: Mutuality, Role Reversal, and Erotic Paideia in Xenophon’s and Plato’s Symposia / Francesca Pentassuglio

Socratic Economics and the Psychology of Money / Tazuko Angela van Berkel

From Friendship to Politics

Xenophon’s Conception of Friendship in Memorabilia 2.6 (with Reference to Plato’s Lysis) / Melina Tamiolaki

Socrates’ Attitude towards Politics in Xenophon and Plato / Fiorenza Bevilacqua

Plato and Xenophon on the Different Reasons that Socrates Always Obeys the Law / Louis-André Dorion

Plato’s Statesman and Xenophon’s Cyrus / Carol Atack

History

Sparta in Xenophon and Plato / Noreen Humble

Plato, Xenophon and Persia / Christopher Tuplin

The Enemies of Hunting in Xenophon’s Cynegeticus / David Thomas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-36908-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004369085 DOI