TY - BOOK AU - Corcoran,Clinton DeBevoise TI - Topography and deep structure in Plato: the construction of place in the Dialogues T2 - SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy SN - 9781438462714 AV - B395 U1 - 184 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Albany PB - SUNY PRESS, State University of New York Press KW - Plato. KW - Dialogues (Plato) KW - fast KW - Place (Philosophy) KW - Lieu (Philosophie) KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - History & Surveys KW - Ancient & Classical KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction. Plato's Esoteric Conception of Space ; Physical Space and Narrative Space; Depth and Surface; Plot and Settings; Historical Space and the Canon; Chapter 1. Descent into the Maelstrom ; The Republic, the Oracle of Trophonius, and the Peloponnesian War; The Long Walls; The Cave; The Opening of the Republic and the Oracle of Trophonius; The Oracle of Trophonius; Socrates as a Leader of Souls; The Myth of Er; Chapter 2. The Menexenus, Socrates, and the Battle of Arginusae ; Dead Souls; The History of Athens; The Battle; The Trial; The AnachronismThe City of the Dead; Chapter 3. The Symbolism in the City Plan of Plato's Atlantis ; The Present Past and Past Present; Intentional Incompleteness?; The Circuit Walls of Atlantis; Oreichalkos and Platonic Metallurgy; Geomancy; Chapter 4. The Slow Boat from Delos, or Socrates's Ship Comes In?; Which Ship Is That?; The Woman in White; Reenactment: Saving Athens Again; Socrates and Divination; Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On; The Delia; Chapter 5. Wrestling and the Fair Fight in Plato ; Plato's View of Wrestling; Wrestling for Phaedrus; Lysis: Wrestling as an Enactment of Philosophic DialogueThe Republic: Thrasymachus as Pankratist; Wrestling, Dialectic, and Authenticity; Theomachia: Calliope versus Aphrodite in Plato's Philebus; War and Remembrance; War, Conflict, and the Good; Chapter 6. The Good as Architectonic ; Alcibiades's Eccentric Orbit of the Good; The Allegory of the Cave and the Myth of the True Earth; The Good as Architectonic; Interdimensionality; Notes; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Names; Index Locorum N2 - A literary and historical analysis of the structure and meaning of recurrent symbols, images, and actions employed in Plato's dialogues UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1421952 ER -