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Hellenic Studies Series 66

Plato's Wayward Path

Literary Form and the Republic

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$22.50 • £18.95 • €20.50

ISBN 9780674417212

Publication Date: 12/01/2014

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  • Preface
  • I. Literary Form and Classical Rhetoric
    • 1. The Problem of Literary Form
    • 2. Philosophical Rhetoric
    • 3. Literary Practice, Modality, and Distance
  • II. Concerning the Republic
    • 4. From Beginning to End and Back Again
    • 5. Digressing toward a Possible Regime
    • 6. Imagining Images in Chains
  • Afterword
  • Glossary of Key Greek Words
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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