Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780521623681 |
| ISBN10: | 0521623685 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 380 pages |
| Size: | 216x140x25 mm |
| Weight: | 630 g |
| Language: | English |
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Category:
Plato: Clitophon
Series:
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries;
37;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 18 November 1999
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Short description:
A text with translation, introduction and commentary of a dialogue ascribed to Plato, first published in 1999.
Long description:
The Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato, is significant for focusing on Socrates' role as an exhorter of other people to engage in philosophy. It was almost certainly intended to bear closely on Plato's Republic and is a fascinating specimen of the philosophical protreptic, an important genre very fashionable at the time. This 1999 volume is a critical edition of this dialogue, in which Professor Slings provides a text based on an examination of all relevant manuscripts and accompanies it with a translation. His extensive introduction studies philosophical exhortation in the classical era, and tries to account for Plato's dialogues in general as a special type of exhortation. The Clitophon is seen as a defence of the Platonic dialogue. The commentary elucidates the Greek and discusses many passages where the meaning is not entirely clear.
"This book is an important and original work of scholarship, well and thoroughly done." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"This book is an important and original work of scholarship, well and thoroughly done." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Table of Contents:
Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Prolegomena to the Dialogue: 1. Introduction; 2. Summary and analysis of composition; 3. Is the Clitophon unfinished?; 4. The Clitophon as a Short Dialogue; 5. The characters of the dialogue; Part II. Meaning and Authenticity: 6. Philosophical protreptic in the fourth century BCE; 7. Protreptic in the Clitophon; 8. Protreptic in Plato; 9. Elenchos in the Clitophon; 10. Justice in the Clitophon; 11. The meaning of the Clitophon; 12. Date and authenticity; Text and translation; Commentary; Appendices: I. The ending of Aristotle's Protrepticus; II. Note on the text; Bibliography; Indexes.
