The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics - Rilegato

Nails, Debra

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0872205649 ISBN 13: 9780872205642

Casa editrice: Hackett Pub Co Inc, 2002

Riassunto

The People of Plato is the first study since 1823 devoted exclusively to the identification of, and relationships among, the individuals represented in the complete Platonic corpus. It provides details of their lives, and it enables one to consider the persons of Plato's works, and those of other Socratics, within a nexus of important political, social, and familial relationships.

Debra Nails makes a broad spectrum of scholarship accessible to the non-specialist. She distinguishes what can be stated confidently from what remains controversial and--with full references to ancient and contemporary sources--advances our knowledge of the men and women of the Socratic milieu.

Bringing the results of modern epigraphical and papyrological research to bear on long-standing questions, The People of Plato is a fascinating resource and valuable research tool for the field of ancient Greek philosophy and for literary, political, and historical studies more generally.

In discrete sections, Nails discusses systems of Athenian affiliation, significant historical episodes that link lives and careers of the late fifth century, and their implications for the dramatic dates of the dialogues. The volume includes a rich array of maps, stemmata, and diagrams, plus a glossary, chronology, plan of the agora in 399 B.C.E., bibliography, and indices.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Debra Nails is Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University.

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Book by Nails Debra

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hackett Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0872205649
• ISBN 13: 9780872205642
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 392