Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
A note on transcribed Greek versus Greek fonts xi
Preface xiii
Introduction Knut Ågotnes Hallvard Fossheim Vigdis Songe-Møller 1
Part 1 Genre and the Philosophical Dialogue
1 The Whole Comedy and Tragedy of Philosophy: On Aristophanes' Speech in Plato's Symposium Drew A. Hyland 15
2 A Praise of the Philosophical Written Speech? Ethics and Philosophical Progression in Plato's Symposium Elena Irrera 29
3 Socrates' Appeals to Homer's Achilles in Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crito Hoyden W. Ausland 51
4 Plato's Ring of Gyges and Das Leben der Anderen Jacob Howland 79
Part 2 Virtue and Soul-shaping
5 Plato's Inverted Theatre: Displacing the Wisdom of the Poets Paul Woodruff 95
6 Gods, Giants and Philosophers: On Being, Education and Dialogue in Plato's Sophist 245e6-249d5 Jens Kristian Larsen 107
7 Philotimia, On Rhetoric, Virtues and Honour in the Symposium Knut Ågotnes 123
Part 3 Reason and Irrationality
8 The Significance of the Ambiguity of Music in Plato Kristin Sampson 143
9 Pleasure, Perception and Images in Plato Cynthia Freeland 161
10 The Limits of Rationality in Plato's Phaedo Hallvard Fossheim 179
Part 4 Place and Displacement
11 Place (topos) and Strangeness (atopia) in the Phaedrus Erlend Breidal 191
12 Hunt: Method and Metaphor. A Reading of the Sophist 216al-226a6 Gro Rørstadbotten 209
13 Plato's Sophist: A Different Look John Sallis 231
Index 241