Bloomsbury Companion to Plato

Gerald A. Press is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, USA, and has published widely on Plato.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Plato's Life, Historical, Literary and Philosophic ContextLife of PlatoAristophanes and intellectualsEducationEleaticsIsocrates and LogographyOrality and LiteracyPoetry (epic and lyric)PresocraticsPythagoreansRhetoric and speech-makingSocrates (historical)Socratics other than Plato)SophistsPart II: The DialoguesThe Platonic Corpus and Manuscript TraditionAlcibiadesApologyCharmidesClitophonCratylusCritoDubious and spurious dialogues(Alcibiades II, Hipparchus, Minos, Rival Lovers, Axiochus, Definitions, On Justice, On Virtue, Demodocus, Eryxias, Sisyphus)EuthydemusEuthyphroGorgiasHippias MajorHippias MinorIonLachesLawsLettersLysisMenexenusMenoParmenidesPhaedo PhaedrusPhilebusPoliticus (Statesman)ProtagorasRepublicSophistSymposiumTheaetetusTheagesTimaeus-CritiasPart III: Special Features of the DialoguesAnonymityCharactersDramaHistoryHumor IronyLanguageLiterary compositionMusical structureMyths and storiesPedagogical structure Pedimental structurePlay and seriousnessProleptic compositionSocrates (the character)Part IV: Concepts, Themes and Topics treated in the DialoguesAestheticsAkrasiaAntilogy and eristicAppearance and realityArtBeautyBeing and becomingCausalityCaveCityCosmosDaimonDeathDesireDialecticDivided LineEducationElenchusEpistemologyEthicsExcellenceFormsFriendshipGoodnessHappinessImage ImitationInspirationIntellectualismJusticeLanguageLawLogic logos AccountLoveMadness and possessionMathematicsMedicineMethodMusicMythNatureNon-propositional knowledgeOne, theOntologyPaederasteiaParticipationPerception and sensationPhilosophy and the philosopherPietyPleasurePoetryReasonRecollectionRhetoricSelf-knowledgeSophistsSoulSun simileTheologyVisionWomen WritingPart V: Later Reception, Interpretation and InfluenceThe Ancient WorldAncient HermeneuticsAristotle and PlatoAcademy of Athens, Ancient History ofAncient Jewish PlatonismNeoplatonism and its diasporaThe Middle Ages and RenaissanceMedieval Islamic PlatonismMedieval Jewish PlatonismMedieval Christian PlatonismRenaissance PlatonismCambridge PlatonismModern and Contemporary PhilosophyEarly modern philosophy: from Descartes to BerkeleyNineteenth-century idealismsNineteenth Century Plato scholarship DevelopmentalismCompositional chronologyAnalytic approachesVlastosian approachesContinental approachesStraussian approachesPlato's 'Unwritten doctrines'EsoterismThe Tübingen ApproachAnti-Platonism, ancient to modernBibliographyIndex of Names (other than Plato and Socrates)Index of Topics

The editor has assembled a remarkably wide range of contributors, able to cover - as successfully as any team could, within the space of a single volume - the outlines of the complex and fissiparous world of Plato, Platonism, and Platonic interpretation up to the present day. The book represents a unique resource for advanced students and professional scholars alike.