Plato and Xenophon

Comparative Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36901-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 417, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1123 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Danzig, Gabriel

Johnson, David

Morrison, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Introduction to the Comparative Study of Plato and Xenophon
Gabriel Danzig

Introduction to This Volume
David Johnson

Part 1 Methods

Comparative Exegesis and the Socratic Problem
Louis-André Dorion

Xenophon’s Intertextual Socrates
David Johnson

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

Xenophon and the Socratics
James Redfield

Xenophon on “Philosophy” and Socrates
Christopher Moore

Xenophon and the Elenchos: A Formal and Comparative Analysis
Genevieve Lachance

Part 2 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: Responding to Intentional Wrongdoing in Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle
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
T.A. van Berkel

Part 3 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

Part 4 History

Sparta in Xenophon and Plato
Noreen Humble

Plato, Xenophon and Persia
C.J. Tuplin

The Enemies of Hunting in Xenophon’s Cynegeticus
David Thomas

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriel Danzig, PhD (1997) Hebrew University, Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of Socratic Dialogues (Heb.) and Apologizing for Socrates (Eng.) and many articles on Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle.

David Johnson PhD (1996) Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures, and International Trade – Classics Section, College of Liberal Arts, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Dave is the author of Socrates and Athens (CUP) and numerous articles on Xenophon.

Donald Morrison, Ph.D. (1983) Princeton, is Professor of Philosophy at Rice University. He is the author of Bibliography of Editions, Translations, and Scholarly Commentary on Xenophon's Socratic Writings, 1600-present (Mathesis, 1988), and many articles on Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle.

Contributors are: William H.F. Altman, Carol Atack, Fiorenza Bevilacqua, Olga Chernyakhovskaya, Gabriel Danzig, Louis-André Dorion, Lowell Edmunds, Noreen Humble, Katarzyna Jazdzewska, David Johnson, Genevieve Lachance, Christopher Moore, Francesca Pentassuglio, James Redfield, Alessandro Stavru, Melina Tamiolaki, David Thomas, C. J. Tuplin, T. A. van Berkel, Roslyn Weiss.