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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2012
      April 2012
      ISBN:
      9780511978081
      9780521871747
      9781108439411
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511978081
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 354 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 354 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, Ancient Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, Ancient Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Studies
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    As prose dramatic texts Plato's dialogues would have been read by their original audience as an alternative type of theatrical composition. The 'paradox' of the dialogue form is explained by his appropriation of the discourse of theatre, the dominant public mode of communication of his time. The oral performance of his works is suggested both by the pragmatics of the publication of literary texts in the classical period and by his original role as a Sokratic dialogue-writer and the creator of a fourth dramatic genre. Support comes from a number of pieces of evidence, from a statue of Sokrates in the Academy (fourth century BC) to a mosaic of Sokrates in Mytilene (fourth century AD), which point to a centuries-old tradition of treating the dialogues in the context of performance literature and testify to the significance of the image of 'Plato the prose dramatist' for his original and subsequent audiences.

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