List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Note
Introduction, Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée and Francisco J.
Gonzalez
Part I. Reflections on the Nature of Platonic Myths
Chapter One. Plato’s Exoteric Myths, Glenn W. Most
Chapter Two. Myth and Interpretation, Monique Dixsaut
Chapter Three. Literal and Deeper Meanings in Platonic Myth, Harold
Tarrant
Chapter Four. The Freedom of Platonic Myth, G. R. F. Ferrari
Chapter Five. The Platonic Art of Myth Making: Myths as informative
Phantasmata, Catherine Collobert
Chapter Six. Spectacles from Hades. On Plato’s Myths and Allegories
in the Republic, Pierre Destrée
Part II. Approaches to Platonic Myths
Chapter Seven. The Pragmatics of ‘Myth’ in Plato’s Dialogues: The
Story of Prometheus in the Protagoras, Claude Calame
Chapter Eight. Religion and Morality. Elements of Plato’s
Anthropology in the Myth of Prometheus, Gerd Van Riel
Chapter Nine. Whip Scars on the Naked Soul: Myth and Elenchos in
Plato's Gorgias, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Chapter Ten. The Status of the Myth of the Gorgias, or: Taking
Plato Seriously, Christopher Rowe
Chapter Eleven. The Rivers of the Underworld: Plato’s Geography of
Dying and Coming-back-to-Life, Elizabeth Pender
Chapter Twelve. Choice of Life and Self-Transformation in the Myth
of Er, Annie Larivée
Chapter Thirteen. Combating Oblivion: The Myth of Er as both
Philosophy’s Challenge and Inspiration, Francisco J. Gonzalez
Chapter Fourteen. The Myth of Theuth in the Phaedrus, Christopher
Moore
Chapter Fifteen. Myth and Truth in Plato's Phaedrus, Franco
Trabattoni
Chapter Sixteen. Theriomorphism and the composite Soul in Plato,
Kathryn Morgan
Chapter Seventeen. Myth, Image and Likeness in Plato’s Timaeus,
Elsa Grasso
Chapter Eighteen. Why is the Timaeus called an eikôs muthos and an
eikôs logos?, Luc Brisson
Chapter Nineteen. Why two Epochs of Human History ? On the Myth of
the Stateman, Christoph Horn
Chapter Twenty. The Delphic Oracle on Socrates’ Wisdom: A Myth?,
Louis-André Dorion
References
Index locorum
Pierre Destrée, Ph.D. (1994) in Philosophy, University of Louvain,
is Research Associate at the Fonds Belge de la Recherche
Scientifique, and Associate Professor at the University of Louvain.
His publications include numerous articles in ancient Greek ethics,
and aesthetics. With Brill, he has co-edited (with Ch. Bobonich)
Akrasia in Greek Philosophy (2007), and (with F.-G. Herrmann) Plato
and the Poets (2011).
Catherine Collobert, Ph.D. (1992) in Philosophy, University of
Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Ottawa. She has published numerous articles and books
in Ancient Philosophy including Parier sur le temps: la quête
héroïque d'immortalité dans l'épopée homérique (Les Belles Lettres,
2011).
Francisco J. Gonzalez, Ph.D. (1991) in Philosophy, University of
Toronto, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He
has published widely in the areas of Ancient Philosophy and
Contemporary Continental Philosophy, including: (ed.) The Third
Way: New Directions in Platonic Studies (Rowman and Littlefield,
2005), Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical
Inquiry (Northwestern, 1998), and Plato and Heidegger: A Question
of Dialogue (Penn State, 2009).
Contributors: Luc Brisson, Claude Calame, Catherine Collobert,
Pierre Destrée, Monique Dixsaut, Louis-André Dorion, Radcliffe G.
Edmonds III, G. R. F. Ferrari, Francisco J. Gonzalez, Elsa Grasso,
Christoph Horn, Annie Larivée, Christopher Moore, Kathryn Morgan,
Glenn Most, Elizabeth Pender, Christopher Rowe, Harold Tarrant,
Franco Trabattoni, Gerd van Riel
"Angesichts des steinigen Diskussionsgeländes und der Qualität der Beiträge muss das Fazit zu Plato and Myth lauten: Für jeden, der sich mit Platons Mythen befasst, ist dies ein empfehlenswertes Buch." Christian Schäfer in BMCR 02.11.2012
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