The Poetics of Philosophical Language: Plato, Poets and Presocratics in the 'Republic' (Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts)

1. Introduction
	1.1 Plato and the Presocratics: Old and new problems
	1.2 The language problem
	1.3 The literary and the philosophical in Plato: Philosophy against poetry
	1.4 The poetics of philosophical language
	1.5 The Republic’s main motifs: Mixture, diversity and purity
	1.6 Philosophy, poetry, painting and the poikilia-motif
	1.7 The Republic’s interlocutors
	1.8 Plato and Post-Platonic problems about language
Section One: The Theory
	1. Aims and perspectives
	2. Poetics
	3. Mythos and eikõn
	4. Imagistic discourse
		4.1 Poikilia and images
		4.2 Eikones in Gorgias’ Helen
		4.3 Definition of Platonic imagery
	5. Imagistic language, the dramatization of language and metaphoric language
		5.1. Platonic Eikones: A homoiõsis?
		5.2 Dramatization of language: the theory
		5.3 Metaphoric language
Section Two: The Republic
	1. Human nature and philosophical style in the Republic Book 5
		1.1 Introduction
		1.2 The “two waves” of the argument
			1.2.1 The first wave of argument: women in the guardians’ agele˜
			1.2.2 The second wave of argument: the guardians’ mixis and class purity
			1.2.3 The third wave of argument
	2. Philosophical style in the third wave of argument in Book 5
		2.1 Glaucon
		2.2 The third wave again
			2.2.1 Part one: the mixed style
			2.2.2 Part two: the cleansed style
			2.2.3 Part three: the imagistic style
	3. Verbal Images in the Republic Books 2 and 6
		3.1 The poets’ eikones in the Republic
		3.2 Plato’s eikones in the Republic
			3.2.1 Images of human nature
			3.2.2 The way to the Form of the Good
			3.2.3 Plato’s eikones: The Image of the Sun
	4. Philosophers, non-philosophers and the unjust in the Republic
		4.1 Adeimantus’ philosophers
		4.2 Human nature, “true” philosophers and “false” philosophers
		4.3 The poetics of the unjust in Books 8 and 9
		4.4 The Language of Democracy and Tyranny
			4.4.1 Democracy
			4.4.2 Tyranny
	5. Conclusion. ‘Viewing’ the skiagraphia
Bibliography
Index