Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 ‘Where Are You Going and Where Have You Come From?’: The Problem of Beginnings and Endings in Plato
Chapter 2 Frame and Frame-Breaking in Plato’s Dialogues
	1 Metalepsis in Plato
	2 Single-Level Dialogues: Rhetorical Metalepsis. The Charmides and Republic 1
	3 Multi-Level Dialogues
		3.1 Metalepsis at Discourse Level
			3.1.1 Rhetorical Metalepsis: the Protagoras, the Symposium, the Phaedo
			3.1.2 Two-tier Reported Speech: the Parmenides and the Symposium
		3.2 Metalepsis at Story Level: the Euthydemus and the Phaedo
	4 Conclusions
Chapter 3 Paradoxical Proems: On the Relationship between Διήγησις and Μίμησις in Plato’s Dialogues
	1 Introduction*
	2 Matters of Fact
	3 Plato’s Paradoxical Proems
	4 The Primacy of Διήγησις?
	5 Philosophical Μίμησις
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 4 The Prologue of the Charmides
Chapter 5 Elenctic Aporia and Performative Euporia: Literary Form and Philosophical Message
	1 Drama and Argument
	2 Socrates’ Performance as a ‘Dramatic’ Commentary
	3 Dead End and Openness
	4 Frame and Openness
	5 ‘Read the Text Again’
		5.1 Protagoras
		5.2 Euthyphro
	6 Aporetic Ending and Fictitious Chronology
		6.1 Fictitious Chronology
		6.2 Euthyphro
		6.3 Apology
	7 Conclusion
Chapter 6 Leisure, Philosophy and Teaching in the Protagoras
	1 Introduction
	2 The Opening of the Protagoras
	3 The End of the Protagoras
		3.1 Thematic Links
		3.2 Lexical Links
	4 Leisure, Philosophy and Teaching
	5 Inner Frame
	6 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 7 Justice as Happiness  : Republic and Its Proems
	1 Proems as Parts: On the Method
	2 The Whole and Its Proems
	3 First Word(s)
	4 First Scene
	5 First Book
	6 First Part
	7 Preludes of a Whole
Chapter 8 Eros from Plato to Comedy: The Lysis and the Early Reception of Plato’s Beginnings
	1 Poetry in the Lysis
	2 The Opening of the Lysis
	3 Plato’s Poetic Catnip and Alexis’ Phaedrus
	4 Conclusions
Chapter 9 Eros in the Platonic Frame
Chapter 10 ‘Were You There Yourself?’: The ‘Dialectics of the Body’ In Plato’s Phaedo
	1 Introduction
	2 The Phaedo
		2.1 Narrative Frames and Emotions
		2.2 The Socratic Body in the Phaedo
Chapter 11 The Necessity of Writing: The Introduction of Plato’s Theaetetus
	1 Introduction*
	2 The Frames of the Theaetetus and the Idea of Plato’s Absence
	3 Plato Dramaticus and His Audience: Reading Theaetetus from the Beginning
		3.1 The Outer Frame
		3.2 The Inner Frame
	4 Theaetetus’ Frames in (a Platonic) Context
	5 Conclusion
Chapter 12 Chance Encounters and Abrupt Endings: On the Preludes and Closures of Plato’s Third Thrasyllan Tetralogy
	1 The Question*
	2 Preludes and Closures as Literary Techniques
	3 A Broader Perspective
Chapter 13 The Introduction to Plato’s Parmenides: What Does It Introduce and to Whom?
	1 Introduction*
	2 Why This Structure?
	3 The Chain of Narrators
	4 Serious Philosophers
	5 Zeno’s Book
	6 Practice, Not Memory
	7 The Search for Arguments
	8 Clazomenae
	9 Conclusion
Chapter 14 The Prooimion and the Skopos: Proclus’ Commentary of the Alcibiades i
	1 Proclus on the Role of Prooimia
	2 Proclus on the Skopos and its Relationship to Prooimion
	3 Alcibiades i: Self-knowledge
	4 Alcibiades i: Love
	5 Conclusion
Bibliography
General Index
Index Locorum