Essays on Plato's Republic
By: edited by Erik Nis Ostenfeld.
Contributors: Ostenfeld, Erik Nis.
Series: Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ;; 2
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Aarhus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Plato. -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-112) and indexes.
Papers from a conference held at the Centre for the Study of Antiquity, University of Aarhus, 4-5 April 1997.
Table of contents: title: How totalitarian is Plato's Republic? / Lesley Brown; title: Plato as a problem-solver: the unity of the polis as a key to the interpretation of Plato's Republic / Frederik Arends; title: Plato and Xenophon: two contributions to the constitutional debate in the 4th century BC / Bodil Due; title: Did Plato ever reply to those critics who reproached him for 'the emptiness of the platonic idea or form of the good'? / Rafael Ferber; title: Socratic paradoxes and the tripartite soul / Henrik Pontoppidan Thyssen; title: Eudaimonia in Plato's Republic / Erik Nis Ostenfeld; title: Plato's ideal of science / Eiríkur Smári Sigurdarson; title: Katabasis of Er: Plato's use of myths, exemplified by the myth of Er / Lars Albinus.