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Author Monoson, Susan Sara, 1960-

Title Plato's democratic entanglements : Athenian politics and the practice of philosophy / S. Sara Monoson.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.
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 Special Collections on Request  TT 320.4 PLAT.M    LIB USE ONLY
Book Cover
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Aspects of the Athenian civic self-image. The allure of Harmodius and Aristogeiton: public/private relations in the Athenian democratic imaginary ; Citizen as Parrhesiastes (Frank Speaker) ; Citizen as Erastes (Lover): erotic imagery and the idea of reciprocity in the Periclean funeral oration ; Citizen as Theates (Theater-Goer): performing unity, reciprocity, and strong-mindedness in the City Dionysia -- Plato's democratic entanglements. Unsettling the orthodoxy ; Philosopher as Parrhesiates (Frank Speaker) ; Remembering Pericles: the political and theoretical import of Plato's Menexenus ; Theory and theatricality.
Subject Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
Plato -- Views on democracy.
Collection Transmissions and Transformations of the Ancient World
ISBN 0691043663 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description xi, 252 p. ; 24 cm.
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