Plato and the Power of Images

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34500-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 405, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Plato is well known both for the harsh condemnations of images and image-making poets that appear in his dialogues and for the vivid and intense imagery that he himself uses in his matchless prose. Through their resemblance to true reality, images have the power to move their viewers to action and to change themselves, but because of their distance from true reality, that power always remains problematic. Two recurrent problems addressed here are how an image resembles what it represents and how to avoid mistaking that image for what it represents. Plato and the Power of Images comprises twelve chapters on the ways Plato has used images, and the ways we could, or should, understand their status as images.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Edmonds III, Radcliffe G.

Destrée, Pierre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Introduction: The Power—and the Problems—of Plato’s Images
Pierre Destrée and Radcliffe Edmonds

Alcibiades’ Eikôn of Socrates and the Platonic Text: Symp. 215a–222d
Andrew Ford

The Image of Achilles in Plato’s Symposium
Elizabeth Belfiore

The Power of a Beautiful Image in Plato and the Poets: Infatuation or Transcendence?
Francisco Gonzalez

Putting Him on a Pedestal: (Re)collection and the Use of Images in Plato’s Phaedrus
Radcliffe Edmonds

Images of Oneself in Plato
Christopher Moore

Perspectivism in Plato’s Views of the Gods
Gerd Van Riel

The Power of Plato’s Cave
Grace Ledbetter

Political Images of the Soul
Olivier Renaut

The Ship of State and the Subordination of Socrates
A.G. Long

Plato’s Goat-Stags and the Uses of Comparison
Kathryn Morgan

Poetry and the Image of the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic
Penelope Murray

The Tripartite Soul as Metaphor
Douglas Cairns

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, PhD (1999) University of Chicago, is the Paul Shorey Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. He has published on Greek religion, myth, and philosophy, including Myths of the Underworld Journey (Cambridge, 2004) and Redefining Ancient Orphism (Cambridge, 2013).

Pierre Destrée is Associate Research Professor at the University of Louvain where he teaches ancient philosophy. He has published widely on Greek ethics and aesthetics, and has co-edited numerous volumes, such as Plato and the Poets (Brill, 2011), Plato and Myth (Brill, 2012), and The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Aesthetics (Wiley, 2015).

Contributors are: Elizabeth Belfiore, Douglas Cairns, Radcliffe Edmonds, Andrew Ford, Francisco Gonzalez, Grace Ledbetter, Alex Long, Christopher Moore, Kathryn Morgan, Penelope Murray, Olivier Renaut, Gerd Van Riel.