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Contents
PROLOGUE | ix |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | xvii |
ABBREVIATIONS AND SOURCES OF CITATIONS | xix |
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xxi |
SOCRATES | 1 |
Plato the Socratic | 3 |
Dramatic Settings | 15 |
Portrait Frames | 23 |
Plato and the Poets | 129 |
Platonic Poetry | 141 |
Dramatis Personae | 151 |
The Open Dialogue | 165 |
DIALECTIC | 177 |
The Socratic Elencbos | 179 |
The Virtue of Knowledge | 191 |
Eros and Psyche | 201 |
The Shadow of Death | 33 |
The Philosopher in Court The Apology of Socrates | 41 |
Socrates Herds | 51 |
Socrates Eros The Symposium | 61 |
Socrates Silenus Alcibiades Speech in the Symposium | 69 |
DIALOGUE | 77 |
Dialogue | 79 |
Socratic Irony | 93 |
Platonic Writing | 101 |
Mimesis | 117 |
Thinking About Ideas | 213 |
The Sun the Line and the Cave Republic 67 | 229 |
Kallipolis The Republic | 241 |
The World of the Demiurge The Timaeus | 255 |
Magnesia The Laws | 267 |
THE ORDER OF THE DIALOGUES | 283 |
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