Speeches for the Dead : : Essays on Plato’s Menexenus /

Speeches for the Dead : : Essays on Plato’s Menexenus / / ed. by Harold Parker, Jan Maximilian Robitzsch.

Show other versions (1)

The Menexenus, in spite of the dearth of scholarly attention it has traditionally received compared to other Platonic texts, is an important dialogue for any consideration of Plato’s views on political philosophy, history, and rhetoric – to say nothing of the dialogue’s contribution to the study of...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Helmer, Étienne,
Kahn, Charles H.,
Marrin, Brian,
Pappas, Nickolas,
Parker, Harold,
Robinson, Clifford,
Robitzsch, Jan Maximilian,
Turner, Jeffrey S.,
Zelcer, Mark,
HerausgeberIn:
Parker, Harold,
Robitzsch, Jan Maximilian,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 368
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 202 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgement
  • Introduction
  • Plato’s Funeral Oration: The Motive of the Menexenus
  • Reading the Menexenus Intertextually
  • On the Structure of Plato’s Menexenus
  • Improvisatory Rhetoric in the Menexenus
  • The Rhetoric of Natural Law in Plato’s Menexenus
  • A Strange Migration from the Menexenus to the Laws
  • Does the political regime feed and rear the citizens? Trophē in Plato’s Menexenus and his other political dialogues
  • Ethnic Identity and Its Political Consequences in the Menexenus
  • “Since we are two alone:” Socratic Paideia in the Menexenus
  • Bibliography

Similar Items