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Plato is well known both for the harsh condemnations of images and image-making poets that appear in his dialogues and for the vivid and intense imagery that he himself uses in his matchless prose. Through their resemblance to true reality, images have the power to move their viewers to action and to change themselves, but because of their distance from true reality, that power always remains problematic. Two recurrent problems addressed here are how an image resembles what it represents and how to avoid mistaking that image for what it represents. Plato and the Power of Images comprises twelve chapters on the ways Plato has used images, and the ways we could, or should, understand their status as images.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Power—and the Problems—of Plato's Images
Pierre Destrée and Radcliffe Edmonds
Alcibiades' Eikôn of Socrates and the Platonic Text: Symp. 215a-222d
Andrew Ford
The Image of Achilles in Plato's Symposium
Elizabeth Belfiore
The Power of a Beautiful Image in Plato and the Poets: Infatuation or Transcendence?
Francisco Gonzalez
Putting Him on a Pedestal: (Re)collection and the Use of Images in Plato's Phaedrus
Radcliffe Edmonds
Images of Oneself in Plato
Christopher Moore
Perspectivism in Plato's Views of the Gods
Gerd Van Riel
The Power of Plato's Cave
Grace Ledbetter
Political Images of the Soul
Olivier Renaut
The Ship of State and the Subordination of Socrates
A.G. Long
Plato's Goat-Stags and the Uses of Comparison
Kathryn Morgan
Poetry and the Image of the Tyrant in Plato's Republic
Penelope Murray
The Tripartite Soul as Metaphor
Douglas Cairns
Index
