Table of Contents

Contents

Abbreviations ix
Contributors x
Introduction: Socrates’ Writing as Writings about Socrates 1
Christopher Moore
PART 1
Living Reception
1 Greek Tragedy and the Socratic Tradition 41
Jacques A. Bromberg
2 Socrates in Early Fourth-Century Rhetoric: Polycrates, Lysias, Isocrates,
and Pseudo-Andocides 75
David J. Murphy
3 Plato’s Reception of Socrates: One Aspect 98
Sandra Peterson
4 Antisthenes’ Portrayal of Socrates 124
Menahem Luz
5 Xenophon’s Socrates and the Socratic Xenophon 150
David Johnson
PART 2
Greek Philosophy
6 Socrates in Aristotle’s History of Philosophy 173
Christopher Moore
7 What Is Socratic about the Pseudo-Platonica? 211
Mark Joyal
8 Epicurus and the Epicureans on Socrates and the Socratics 237
F. Javier Campos-Daroca
9 The Syncretic Socrates of Epictetus 266
Brian Earl Johnson
10 Socratic Themes in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 293
John Sellars
11 Plutarch’s Primary Use of the Socratic Paradigm in the Lives 311
Mark Beck
12 Socratic Methods in Damascius 328
Damian Caluori
PART 3
Roman Writers
13 Cicero and Socrates 347
Sean McConnell
14 Socrates in Roman Satire 367
Cedric Littlewood
15 The Rhetoric of Socrates in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria 399
Curtis Dozier
16 Socrates in Aulus Gellius 415
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
PART 4
Late Antiquity and the Medieval Period
17 The Reception of Socrates in Tertullian 435
Juraj Franek
18 Socrates in Stobaeus: Assembling a Philosopher 453
Susan Prince
19 Syriac Reception of Socrates 518
Ute Pietruschka
20 Socrates in the Arabic Tradition: An Esteemed Monotheist with Moist
Blue Eyes 545
Elvira Wakelnig
21 Socrates, “Princeps Stoicorum,” in Albert the Great’s Middle Ages 571
Nadia Bray
22 Socrates in Byzantium 592
Michele Trizio
PART 5
Early Modern Europe
23 Manetti’s Socrates and the Socrateses of Antiquity 619
James Hankins
24 Writing Montaigne’s Socrates with Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch 635
Alison Calhoun
25 Socrates and Religious Debate in the Scottish Enlightenment 658
Felicity P. Loughlin
PART 6
The Nineteenth Century
26 Socrates in the Early Nineteenth Century, Become Young and
Beautiful 685
Hayden W. Ausland
27 Astonished Thought: Friedrich Schlegel’s Appropriation of Socratic
Irony 719
Samuel Frederick
28 Hegel on Socrates and the Historical Advent of Moral
Self-Consciousness 749
Brady Bowman
29 The Mills 793
Antis Loizides
30 Kierkegaard’s Socratic Way of Writing 820
David Schur and Lori Yamato
31 Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Socrates 837
Christopher C. Raymond
PART 7
The Twentieth Century
32 Wittgenstein’s Reception of Socrates 883
Oskari Kuusela
33 Leo Strauss’ Socrates and the Possibility of Philosophy in Our
Time 908
Dolores Amat
34 “Sacrifice a Cock to Asclepius”: The Reception of Socrates in Foucault’s
Final Writings 928
Leonard Lawlor
35 Socratic Voices in Derrida’s Writing 950
Karel Thein
36 Socrates, Vlastos, and Analytic Philosophy 975
David Conan Wolfsdorf
Index of Persons 997

About the Author

Christopher Moore, Ph.D. (2008), University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the Pennsylvania State University. He has written Socrates and Self-Knowledge (Cambridge, 2015) and Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origins of a Discipline (Princeton, 2019); he has also co-edited Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue (Brill, 2018) and Plato: Charmides (Hackett, 2019).



Contributors are: Dolores Amat, Hayden W. Ausland, Mark Beck, Brady Bowman, Nadia Bray, Jacques A. Bromberg, Alison Calhoun, Damian Caluori, F. Javier Campos-Daroca, Curtis Dozier, Juraj Franek, Samuel Frederick, James Hankins, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Brian Earl Johnson, David Johnson, Mark Joyal, Oskari Kuusela, Leonard Lawlor, Cedric Littlewood, Antis Loizides, Felicity P. Loughlin, Menahem Luz, Sean McConnell, Christopher Moore, David J. Murphy, Sandra Peterson, Ute Pietruschka, Susan Prince, Christopher C. Raymond, David Schur, John Sellars, Karel Thein, Michele Trizio, Elvira Wakelnig, David Conan Wolfsdorf, Lori Yamato