Playful Philosophy and Serious Sophistry : : A Reading of Plato’s "Euthydemus" / / Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi.
This book provides an interpretation of Plato’s Euthydemus as a unified piece of literature, taking into account both its dramatic and its philosophical aspects. It aims to do justice to a major Platonic work which has so far received comparatively little treatment. Except for the sections of the di...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Playful Philosophy: The Protreptic Scenes
- 2 Serious Sophistry: The Eristic Scenes
- 3 Conflating Philosophy and Sophistry: The Framing Scenes
- 4 Reversals: Laughter, Play, and Seriousness
- Conclusion: Overall Interpretation
- Appendix: The Structure of the Euthydemus
- Works Cited
- Index of Proper Names
- Greek Works Cited
- General Index