Corcoran Topography and Deep Structure in Plato

The Construction of Place in the Dialogues
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6271-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy

A literary and historical analysis of the structure and meaning of recurrent symbols, images, and actions employed in Plato’s dialogues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corcoran, Clinton DeBevoise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction. Plato’s Esoteric Conception of Space
Physical Space and Narrative Space
Depth and Surface
Plot and Settings
Historical Space and the Canon

1. Descent into the Maelstrom
The Republic, the Oracle of Trophonius, and the Peloponnesian War
The Long Walls
The Cave
The Opening of the Republic and the Oracle of Trophonius
The Oracle of Trophonius
Socrates as a Leader of Souls
The Myth of Er

2. The Menexenus, Socrates, and the Battle of Arginusae
Dead Souls
The History of Athens
The Battle
The Trial
The Anachronism
The City of the Dead

3. The Symbolism in the City Plan of Plato’s Atlantis
The Present Past and Past Present
Intentional Incompleteness?
The Circuit Walls of Atlantis
Oreichalkos and Platonic Metallurgy
Geomancy

4. The Slow Boat from Delos, or Socrates’s Ship Comes In?
Which Ship Is That?
The Woman in White
Reenactment: Saving Athens Again
Socrates and Divination
Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
The Delia

5. Wrestling and the Fair Fight in Plato
Plato’s View of Wrestling
Wrestling for Phaedrus
Lysis: Wrestling as an Enactment of Philosophic Dialogue
The Republic: Thrasymachus as Pankratist
Wrestling, Dialectic, and Authenticity
Theomachia: Calliope versus Aphrodite in Plato’s Philebus
War and Remembrance
War, Conflict, and the Good

6. The Good as Architectonic
Alcibiades’s Eccentric Orbit of the Good
The Allegory of the Cave and the Myth of the True Earth
The Good as Architectonic
Interdimensionality

Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Names
Index Locorum

Über Autor(innen)

Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at High Point University.