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THE PLAY OF CHARACTER IN PLATO'S DIALOGUES/POETICS BEFORE PLATO: INTERPRETATION AND AUTHORITY IN EARLY GREEK THEORIES OF POETRY

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From: Comparative Literature
Date: 20050401
Author:Ford, Andrew

THE PLAY OF CHARACTER IN PLATO'S DIALOGUES. By Ruby Blondell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi, 452 p.

POETICS BEFORE PIATO: INTERPRETATION AND ALTHORITYIN EARLY GREEK THEORIES OF POETRY. By Grace M. Ledbetter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. viii, 128 p.

Analytic philosophy conquered the study of Plato among classicists in the 1960s with the works of G.E.L. Owen and Gregory Vlastos. From time to time, of course, attention was paid to the style of the author who was widely acclaimed among the ancients as the most sublime artist ever to write Greek prose. But as ...

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