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Speeches for the Dead: Essays on Plato’s Menexenus

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The Menexenus, in spite of the dearth of scholarly attention it has traditionally received compared to other Platonic texts, is an important dialogue for any consideration of Plato’s views on political philosophy, history, and rhetoric – to say nothing of the dialogue’s contribution to the study of civic ideology and institutions, natural law theory, and Plato’s notion of race. Speeches for the Dead unites the  Read more...

Author(s): Parker, Harold; Robitzsch, Jan Maximilian
Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 368
Publisher: de Gruyter
Year: 2018

Language: English
Pages: 209
Tags: funeral oration;Gefallenenrede;Geschichtsschreibung;historiography;Menexenos;Menexenus;Plato;Platon

Frontmatter......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgement......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Plato’s Funeral Oration: The Motive of the Menexenus......Page 17
Reading the Menexenus Intertextually......Page 37
On the Structure of Plato’s Menexenus......Page 59
Improvisatory Rhetoric in the Menexenus......Page 79
The Rhetoric of Natural Law in Plato’s Menexenus......Page 99
A Strange Migration from the Menexenus to the Laws......Page 121
Does the political regime feed and rear the citizens? Trophē in Plato’s Menexenus and his other political dialogues......Page 143
Ethnic Identity and Its Political Consequences in the Menexenus......Page 161
“Since we are two alone:” Socratic Paideia in the Menexenus......Page 205
Bibliography......Page 229