Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue

Alessandro Stavru, Ph.D. (2003) Naples, holds a teaching appointment at Bocconi University (Milan). He has published extensively on Socrates, the Socratics, ancient and modern aesthetics, and the History of Classical Scholarship. He has organized with Livio Rossetti the series of Socratica conferences and edited the Proceedings arising from them (2008, 2010, 2013). He belongs to the Editorial Board of the International Socrates Studies (ISS).Christopher Moore, Ph.D. (2008) University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the Pennsylvania State University, and has written frequently on Heraclitus, Aristophanes, Socrates and the Socratics, and Plato, including Socrates and Self-Knowledge (Cambridge, 2015).

• AbbreviationsSocrates and the Socratic Dialogue: An Overview from the First-Generation Socratics to NeoplatonismChristopher Moore and Alessandro StavruAround SocratesA Sage on the Stage: Socrates and Athenian Old ComedyJacques A. BrombergAristophanes’ Iconic SocratesAndrea CapraProtagorean Socrates, Socratic Protagoras: A Narrative Strategy from Aristophanes to PlatoMichele CorradiIsocrates as a Reader of Socratic DialoguesDavid J. MurphyThe Origins of the Socratic Dialogue: Plato, Xenophon, and the OthersJames M. RedfieldThe Immediate Socratic CircleOn the Dialectical Character of Antisthenes’ Speeches Ajax and Odysseus in the Context of Socratic LiteratureVladislav SuvákSocratism and Eleaticism in Euclides of MegaraAldo BrancacciAristippus on Freedom, Autonomy, and the Pleasurable LifeKristian UrstadShock, Erotics, Plagiarism, and Fraud: Aspects of Aeschines of Sphettus’ PhilosophyClaudia MársicoPhaedo of Elis: The Biography, Zopyrus, and His Intellectual ProfileDanilo Di LanzoPlatoPlato and the SocraticsLuc BrissonPhilosopher Socrates? Philosophy at the Time of Socrates and the Reformed Philosophia of PlatoLivio RossettiA Literary Challenge: How to Represent Socrates’ DaimonionStefano JedrkiewiczThe Logical Structure of Socrates’ Expert-AnalogiesPetter SandstadCrying for Help: Socrates as Silenus in the EuthydemusMichael ErlerSocrates and Natural Philosophy: The Testimony of Plato’s PhaedoJörn MüllerBios Praktikos and Bios Theôrêtikos in Plato’s GorgiasIvan JordovićThe Socratic DubiaHarold TarrantNotes on LoversSandra PetersonXenophonHow to Defend the Defense of Socrates? From the Apology to Memorabilia Book 1Pierre PontierNature, Culture and the Rule of the Good in Xenophon’s Socratic Theory of Friendship: Memorabilia Book 2Gabriel DanzigFrom Generals to Gluttony: Memorabilia Book 3David JohnsonXenophon’s Socratic Education in Memorabilia Book 4Christopher MooreFundamental Parallels between Socrates’ and Ischomachus’ Positions in the OeconomicusLouis-André DorionAphrodite and Philophrosyne: Xenophon’s Symposium between Athenian and Spartan ParadigmsMaria Consiglia AlvinoXenophon’s Hiero: Hiding Socrates to Reform TyrannyFederico ZuoloXenophon’s Philosophical Approach to Writing: Socratic Elements in the Non-Socratic WorksNoreen HumbleLater ReceptionAristotle on SocratesNicholas SmithAristoxenus on SocratesAlessandro StavruSocratic Protreptic and Epicurus: Healing through PhilosophyJan Erik HeßlerFrom Competitor to Hero: The Stoics on SocratesRobert BeesSocrates and Alcibiades as “Satiric Heroes:” The Socrates of PersiusDiego De BrasiPlutarch’s Reception of SocratesGeert Roskam“A Man of Outstanding Perfection”: Apuleius’ Admiration for SocratesFriedemann DrewsSocrates in Maximus of TyreM.B. TrappSocrates in the Ancient Biographical Tradition: From the Anonymous Phib. 182 to Diogenes LaertiusTiziano DorandiAn Embodiment of Intellectual Freedom? Socrates in LibaniusHeinz-Günther NesselrathPolitical Philosopher or Saviour of Souls? Socrates in Themistius and Julian the EmperorMaria Carmen De VitaProclus on Socratic Ignorance, Knowledge, and IronyDanielle A. LayneIndex

''Alessandro Stavru and Christopher Moore have produced a substantial contribution to the literature on Socrates and Socratic literature. Their edited collection includes around forty chapters on a wide range of Socratic topics. Following an overview chapter by the editors, the volume is divided into five parts: the contemporary Athenian representation of Socrates and the Socratic dialogue, the Socratic circle, Plato, Xenophon, and the later ancient reception of Socrates. This is a rich and stimulating resource which will have something to offer anyone with an interest in Socrates.'' Jenny Bryan, in Greece & Rome 67.1: 113-118 (april 2022)