Plato and the power of images

Plato and the power of images / edited by Pierre Destrée, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III.

Plato and the Power of Images addresses ways Plato has used images and the ways to understand their status as images, particularly how an image resembles what it represents and how to avoid mistaking that image for what it represents.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Destrée, Pierre (Editor), Edmonds, Radcliffe G., III, 1970- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 405.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.
Subjects:
Plato.
Plato
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
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Table of Contents:
  • ‎Contents; ‎List of Contributors; ‎Introduction: The Power-and the Problems-of Plato's Images (Destrée and Edmonds); ‎Alcibiades' Eikôn of Socrates and the Platonic Text: Symp. 215a-222d (Ford); ‎The Image of Achilles in Plato's Symposium (Belfiore); ‎The Power and Ambivalence of a Beautiful Image in Plato and the Poets (Gonzalez); ‎Putting Him on a Pedestal: (Re)collection and the Use of Images in Plato's Phaedrus (Edmonds); ‎Images of Oneself in Plato (Moore); ‎Perspectivism in Plato's Views of the Gods (Van Riel); ‎The Power of Plato's Cave (Ledbetter)
  • ‎Political Images of the Soul (Renaut)‎The Ship of State and the Subordination of Socrates (Long); ‎Plato's Goat-Stags and the Uses of Comparison (Morgan); ‎Poetry and the Image of the Tyrant in Plato's Republic (Murray); ‎The Tripartite Soul as Metaphor (Cairns); ‎Index Locorum; ‎Index Thematicum

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