New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient

Edited by Julia Annas

Edited by Christopher J. Rowe

    Preface

    Introduction

    ONE

    What Are Plato's "Middle" Dialogues in the Middle Of?

    Julia Annas

    Comments on Annas

    Dorothea Frede

    TWO

    Socratic Irony in the Platonist Commentators

    David Sedley

    Comments on Sedley

    David Blank

    THREE

    The Origins of Our Present Paradigms

    C. C. W Taylor

    Comments on Taylor

    Brad Inwood

    FOUR

    On Platonic Chronology

    Charles Kahn

    Comments on Kahn

    Charles L. Griswold, Jr.

    FIVE

    Dialectic and the Dialogue Form

    Christopher Gill

    Comments on Gill

    Kathryn Morgan

    SIX

    The Historical Socrates and Plato's Early Dialogues: Some Philosophical Questions

    Terry Penner

    Comments on Penner

    Christopher Rowe

    SEVEN

    Distant Views: "Realistic" and "Fantastic" Mimesis in Plato

    Andrea Nightingale

    Comments on Nightingale

    R. B. Rutherford

    The Contributors

    Index

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Julia Annas is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

Christopher J. Rowe is Professor of Greek at the University of Durham (UK).