Plato's First Interpreters
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
- Publish date: 07/01/2000
Tarrant's primary emphasis is on the Middle Platonists, but he also discusses the Old and New Academies, the Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonists, and selected nonphilosophical writers. In Part I, he addresses some of the principal issues of interpretation -- Are the dialogues drama or philosophy? Is Plato offering doctrine? What parts of the corpus are most important? -- and considers them alongside the views of ancient readers. In Part II, he offers a historical over-view of significant ancient developments in interpretation over the centuries. In Part III, he considers ancient attitudes toward particular groups of dialogues, and the Gorgias and the Theaetetus individually.