Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception
Part of Cambridge Classical Studies
- Author: Nikos G. Charalabopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
- Date Published: November 2017
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108439411
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As prose dramatic texts Plato's dialogues would have been read by their original audience as an alternative type of theatrical composition. The 'paradox' of the dialogue form is explained by his appropriation of the discourse of theatre, the dominant public mode of communication of his time. The oral performance of his works is suggested both by the pragmatics of the publication of literary texts in the classical period and by his original role as a Sokratic dialogue-writer and the creator of a fourth dramatic genre. Support comes from a number of pieces of evidence, from a statue of Sokrates in the Academy (fourth century BC) to a mosaic of Sokrates in Mytilene (fourth century AD), which point to a centuries-old tradition of treating the dialogues in the context of performance literature and testify to the significance of the image of 'Plato the prose dramatist' for his original and subsequent audiences.
Read more- Places both the dramatic and the philosophical readings of Plato in their original context
- Shows how ancient readers treated Plato not only as a philosopher but also as a prose playwright
- Presents for the first time a wide range of textual and archaeological evidence for the theatrical aspect of Plato
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- Date Published: November 2017
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108439411
- length: 353 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 140 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Setting the stage
2. The metatheatre of dialogue
3. Performing Plato
4. Plato's theatre: the fragments
Finale
Appendix: an Academy inscription.
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