Athletics, gymnastics, and agōn in Plato
"In the Panathenaic Games, there was a torch race for teams of ephebes that started from the altars of Eros and Prometheus at Plato's Academy and finished on the Acropolis at the altar of Athena, goddess of wisdom. It was competitive, yes, but it was also sacred, aimed at a noble goal. To...
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Sioux City, Iowa, USA
Parnassos Press
2020, 2020
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Epigraphs
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Plato's gymnastic dialogues / Heather L. Reid
- Architectural and spatial features of Plato's Gymnasia and Palaistrai / Matthew P. Evans
- Socrates at the wrestling school: Plato's Laches, Lysis, and Charmides / Erik Kenyon
- Critias in Plato's Protagoras: An opponent of Agōn / Christopher Moore
- A contest between two lives: Plato's existential drama / Mark Ralkowski
- On Philogymnastia and its cognates in Plato / Stamatia Dova
- The Agōn between philosophy and poetry / Guilherme Domingues da Motta
- Agōn and Erōs in Plato's Symposium / Marie-Élise Zovko
- Socrates's agonistic use of shame / Nicholas D. Smith
- Agōn as constituent of the Socratic Elenchos / Jure Zovko
- Wrestling with the eleatics in Plato's Parmenides / Lidia Palumbo & Heather L. Reid
- Four-term analogies and the Gorgias: Gymnastics, Agōn, and the athletic life in Plato / Daniel A. Dombrowksi
- The Agōnes of platonic philosophy: Seeking victory without triumph / Lee M. J. Coulson
- Plato's rejection of the logic of domination / Coleen P. Zoller / Index of platonic dialogues
- Index of Greek terms
- General index