Plato and the Power of Images, (Mnemosyne, Supplements) (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

"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."--Back cover. ‎Contents 5 ‎List of Contributors 7 ‎Introduction: The Power—and the Problems—of Plato’s Images (Destrée and Edmonds) 9 ‎Alcibiades’ Eikôn of Socrates and the Platonic Text: Symp. 215a–222d (Ford) 19 ‎The Image of Achilles in Plato’s Symposium (Belfiore) 37 ‎The Power and Ambivalence of a Beautiful Image in Plato and the Poets (Gonzalez) 55 ‎Putting Him on a Pedestal: (Re)collection and the Use of Images in Plato’s Phaedrus (Edmonds) 74 ‎Images of Oneself in Plato (Moore) 96 ‎Perspectivism in Plato’s Views of the Gods (Van Riel) 115 ‎The Power of Plato’s Cave (Ledbetter) 129 ‎Political Images of the Soul (Renaut) 146 ‎The Ship of State and the Subordination of Socrates (Long) 166 ‎Plato’s Goat-Stags and the Uses of Comparison (Morgan) 187 ‎Poetry and the Image of the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic (Murray) 207 ‎The Tripartite Soul as Metaphor (Cairns) 227 ‎Index Locorum 247 ‎Index Thematicum 251