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The Poetics of Philosophical Language Plato, Poets and Presocratics in the 'Republic'

:	Zacharoula Petraki
:	The Poetics of Philosophical Language Plato, Poets and Presocratics in the 'Republic'
:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
:	9783110262162
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A close analysis of theRepublic’s diverse literary styles shows how the peculiarities of verbal texture in Platonic discourse can be explained by Plato’s remolding of tropes and techniques from poetry and the Presocratics. This book argues that Plato smuggles poetic language into theRepublic’s prose in order to characterize the deceitful coloration and polymorphy that accompanies the world of Becoming as opposed to the Real. Plato’s distinctive discourse thus can transmit, even to those figures focused on the visual within hisRepublic, the shiftiness of the base and the unjust.

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Zacharo la A. Petraki, University of the Peloponnese and University of Crete, Greece.

	Acknowledgments	6
	Contents	8
	1. Introduction	10
	1.1 Plato and the Presocratics: Old and new problems	10
	1.2 The language problem	15
	1.3 The literary and the philosophical in Plato: Philosophy against poetry	17
	1.4 The poetics of philosophical language	21
	1.5 The Republic’s main motifs: Mixture, diversity and purity	24
	1.6 Philosophy, poetry, painting and the poikilia-motif	27
	1.7 The Republic’s interlocutors	35
	1.8 Plato and Post-Platonic problems about language	39
	Section One: The Theory	44
	1. Aims and perspectives	46
	2. Poetics	51
	3. Mythos and eikõn	67
	4. Imagistic discourse	73
	4.1 Poikilia and images	73
	4.2 Eikones in Gorgias’ Helen	74
	4.3 Definition of Platonic imagery	78
	5. Imagistic language, the dramatization of language and metaphoric language	87
	5.1. Platonic Eikones: A homoiõsis?	87
	5.2 Dramatization of language: the theory	99
	5.3 Metaphoric language	103
	Section Two: The Republic	116
	1. Human nature and philosophical style in the Republic Book 5	118
	1.1 Introduction	118
	1.2 The “two waves” of the argument	120
	1.2.1 The first wave of argument: women in the guardians’ agele˜	125
	1.2.2 The second wave of argument: the guardians’ mixis and class purity	133
	1.2.3 The third wave of argument	145
	2. Philosophical style in the third wave of argument in Book 5	151
	2.1 Glaucon	151
	2.2 The third wave again	164
	2.2.1 Part one: the mixed style	172
	2.2.2 Part two: the cleansed style	176
	2.2.3 Part three: the imagistic style	182
	3. Verbal Images in the Republic Books 2 and 6	186
	3.1 The poets’ eikones in the Republic	186
	3.2 Plato’s eikones in the Republic	197
	3.2.1 Images of human nature	197
	3.2.2 The way to the Form of the Good	203
	3.2.3 Plato’s eikones: The Image of the Sun	209
	4. Philosophers, non-philosophers and the unjust in the Republic	224
	4.1 Adeimantus’ philosophers	224
	4.2 Human nature, “true” philosophers and “false” philosophers	229
	4.3 The poetics of the unjust in Books 8 and 9	238
	4.4 The Language of Democracy and Tyranny	248
	4.4.1 Democracy	248
	4.4.2 Tyranny	252
	5. Conclusion. ‘Viewing’ the skiagraphia	264
	Bibliography	276
	Index	300