Reading Ancient Texts. Volume I: Presocratics and Plato
Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien
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All those interested in Classics and Philosophy, especially ancient philosophy and its history.
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Suzanne Stern-Gillet | Kevin Corrigan
Reading Ancient Texts. Volume I: Presocratics and Plato
Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien
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12/2007
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Suzanne Stern-Gillet, M.Phil. (Greek and Latin), D.Phil. (Philosophy) is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Bolton. She has published extensively on ancient philosophy (concepts of selfhood and theories of art), including 'Aristotle's Philosophy of Friendship' (New York, 1995).
Kevin Corrigan is Professor of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. His most recent books are 'Reading Plotinus: a practical guide to Neoplatonism' (2004), 'Plato's Dialectic at Play: Structure, Argument and Myth in the Symposium' (2004) (with Elena Glazov-Corrigan), and ' Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern' (2007) (with John Turner).
Content
Preface
Notes on Contributors
I. PRESOCRATICS
1. Some Remarks on 'noein' in Parmenides, 'F. Fronterotta'
2. The Structure of the Eye and ist Cosmological Function in Empedocles. Reconstruction of Fragment 84, 'M. Rashed'
3. Empedocles, Fragment 115.3: Can One of the Blessed Pollute his Limbs with Blood?, 'J.-C. Picot'
4. Philolaus and the Central Fire, 'C. Huffman'
II. PLATO
5. Self-Knowledge in Plato's 'Alcibiades', 'C. Gill'
6. Socrates on the Definition of Figure in the 'Meno', 'T. Ebert'
7. Plato's 'Phaedo' as Protreptic, 'R.K. Sprague'
8. An Absurd Question: Plato, 'Symposium' 199 d, 'J.C.G. Strachan'
9. Tumescence and Spiritual Seed in the 'Phaedrus', 'J.-F. Pradeau'
10. Plato against Parmenides: 'Sophist' 236D - 242B, 'N. Notomi'
11. Dialectic by Negation in Three Late Dialogues, 'K. Sayre'
A Detailed Bibliography of Denis O'Brien's Works
Index locorum
General Index
Notes on Contributors
I. PRESOCRATICS
1. Some Remarks on 'noein' in Parmenides, 'F. Fronterotta'
2. The Structure of the Eye and ist Cosmological Function in Empedocles. Reconstruction of Fragment 84, 'M. Rashed'
3. Empedocles, Fragment 115.3: Can One of the Blessed Pollute his Limbs with Blood?, 'J.-C. Picot'
4. Philolaus and the Central Fire, 'C. Huffman'
II. PLATO
5. Self-Knowledge in Plato's 'Alcibiades', 'C. Gill'
6. Socrates on the Definition of Figure in the 'Meno', 'T. Ebert'
7. Plato's 'Phaedo' as Protreptic, 'R.K. Sprague'
8. An Absurd Question: Plato, 'Symposium' 199 d, 'J.C.G. Strachan'
9. Tumescence and Spiritual Seed in the 'Phaedrus', 'J.-F. Pradeau'
10. Plato against Parmenides: 'Sophist' 236D - 242B, 'N. Notomi'
11. Dialectic by Negation in Three Late Dialogues, 'K. Sayre'
A Detailed Bibliography of Denis O'Brien's Works
Index locorum
General Index