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The Myths of Plato

Book by J. A. Stewart, Plato; Macmillan, 1905

Subjects:

Mythology, Plato

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...may supersede it by the Myth of Er. 3 So much for...reasonable to suppose that Plato, like many others in...this serious doubt, Plato did not go so far as...may be from that of the Myths of Plato, and the vague popular...it is pre-eminently Greek. Plato clothed in a...
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Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato

Book by Kathryn A. Morgan; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Myth, Philosophy, Ancient

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...M. 1978 A History of Greek Philosophy, vol. V: The Later Plato and the Academy. Cambridge...Halliwell, S. 1988 Plato: Republic 10. Warminster. Halperin, D. 1992 Plato and the erotics of narrativity...Kirk, G. S. 1970 Myth: Its Meaning and Function...1974 The Nature of Greek Myths. Harmondsworth. et...
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Lucian, Plato and Greek Morals

Book by John Jay Chapman; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931

Subjects:

Greece--Moral Conditions, Lucian--Of Samosata, Plato

Collections: Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...American scholars who edit Plato speak as from a pulpit...readers. They regard Plato as an authority on Divine...Victorian tradition and the myths improvised by an imaginative and sophisticated Greek philosopher to amuse a...first introduction to Plato came through an English...
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Greek Political Theory: Plato and His Predecessors

Book by Ernest Barker; Methuen, 1964

Subjects:

Plato, Political Science--Greece--History

Collections: History, Philosophy, Entire Library

...organization. In truth, the class of producers seems to disappear: Plato is preoccupied with the ruler. It is noteworthy that it has...touch the lower classes, which must be supposed to have known myths and music, and would benefit by the purification of both...
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The Origin of the Gods: A Psychoanalytic Study of Greek Theogonic Myth

Book by Richard Caldwell; Oxford University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Gods, Greek--Psychology, Mythology, Greek--Psychology, Psychoanalysis And Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...maternal symbol, and in Greek myth especially she plays...obvious and strong in Greek thought that Plato reversed the symbolism...both Earth and, as the Greeks called her, "Mother...prominently elsewhere in Greek myth and in all mythological...often and obviously in myths of a primal paradise...

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The Myth of the Last Judgment in the Gorgias

Journal article by Alessandra Fussi; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 54, 2001

Subjects:

Gorgias (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Judgment Day--Philosophy, Plato--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Soul--History of doctrines

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...for it is disgraceful (GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE...so sadly uneducated (GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE...Socrates perceives as ugly (GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE...is not unique to this myth. Consider the winged...one of which is a man. Plato is full of myths about the soul, yet...
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Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis

Journal article by Rick R. Marrs; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 56, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Genesis: The Movie (Book)--Book reviews, Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis. by Rick R. Marrs Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis. By Robert...Jesus. Graves, fascinated with Greek mythology, repeatedly attempted...between the Genesis materials and Greek and / or ancient Near Eastern...
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Shackling the Imagination: Education for Virtue in Plato and Rousseau

Journal article by Patricia M. Lines; Humanitas, Vol. 22, 2009

Subjects:

Education--Analysis, Education--United States, Philosophers--Criticism and interpretation, Plato--Criticism and interpretation, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (French philosopher)--Criticism and interpretation, Virtue--Analysis, Virtues--Analysis

Collections: Education, Philosophy, Entire Library

...These new myths must inspire...In short, Plato invented propaganda. His myth of the metals...most famous myth--the allegory...Platos fellow Greeks continued to...give Platos myths the attention...such as the myths of the metals...behavior. Still, Plato created one...call it the myth of Socrates...
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Saving the Last Word: Heidegger and the Concluding Myth of Plato's Republic

Journal article by Peter Warnek; Philosophy Today, Vol. 46, 2002

Subjects:

Heidegger, Martin, Philosophers, Philosophy, Plato

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...indictments against Plato as the foremost instigator...interpretation of Plato to open up the most...to the question of Greek ...; in the Platonic...out the concluding myth of the Republic...untouched the many other myths found virtually everywhere...decisive moment: the myth of Er is to be heard...various encounters with Plato.2 Platos text is...
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Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship

Journal article by Gary Beckman; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, 2001

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...move characteristic of myth, as is the projection...unifying theme of Theorizing Myth is an exploration of...interpretation of individual myths and myth as a phenomenon from...the changing meaning of Greek mythos. The term had...in the prose works of Plato and later philosophers...

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Was Plato the Only Greek Gay?

Magazine article by Kwasi Kwarteng; New Statesman, Vol. 128, August 23, 1999

Subjects:

Civilization, Greek--Social aspects, Homosexuality--Social aspects, Philosophers--Attitudes, Plato--Attitudes

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Was Plato the only Greek gay by Kwasi...the ancient Greeks and their...them. The myths about Greek homosexuality...about the Greeks. All liberals love the Greeks. Greece...Stories of Greek homosexual...because Plato himself was...
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The Historical Socrates: The Popular Image of Socrates as a Man of Immense Moral Integrity Was Largely the Creation of His Pupil Plato. If We Examine Evidence of His Trial, Argues Robin Waterfield, a Different Picture Emerges, of a Cunning Politician Opposed to Athenian Democracy

Magazine article by Robin Waterfield; History Today, Vol. 59, January 2009

Subjects:

Philosophers--Criticism and interpretation, Socrates--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...day, almost all Greek thinkers assumed...its citizens. So Plato occupied himself...Ryan Balot, Greek Political Thought...The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics...Dispelling the Myths is published this...
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Anastasia: the Myth of the Miraculous Survival

Magazine article by Tim Callahan; Skeptic, Vol. 6, 1998

Collections: Entire Library

...the German Siegfried). In Greek myth Theseus, raised in Troezen...heir. In all three of these myths we find the elements of the...particularly evident in the myth of Osiris and Set, where Set...precursors of the Christian nativity myths, not only avenges his fathers...end of the story, for the myth is cyclicaL In fact the year...
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Freedom in Sparta and Athens: The Stark Contrast between Ancient Sparta and Athens Makes Abundantly Clear That Cultural Achievement Occurs Only Where Men Are Free

Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 22, May 29, 2006

Subjects:

Atheism--Social aspects, Athens, Greece--Cultural policy, Freedom--Social aspects, Greek history--Social aspects, Greeks--Social aspects, Liberty--Social aspects, Sparta, Greece--Cultural policy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the preferred warship of the Greeks, to counter the numerically...overwhelming Persian naval force. The Greeks even initially considered withdrawing...two navies parted with the Greeks justifiably considering their...horde forever. Eventually, Greek traitors from another city...Heracles, just one of the myths or legends associated with...Helen at the site where, in myth, the goddess Aphrodite appeared...
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The Christianity of Philosophy

Magazine article by Peter Simpson; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2001

Subjects:

Christianity--Philosophy, Conduct of life--Religious aspects, Philosophy and religion--Social aspects, Philosophy--Religious aspects, Wisdom--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the pre-Socratics to Plato we find very much the...rejecting traditional myths and in substituting rational...Socratics, Socrates, and Plato were doing something new...into religion and faith. Greek religion was very fluid...head. What is true of Plato and Socrates is just as...

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Myth Makers

Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), October 8, 2006

Subjects:

Beef industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Myth Makers. Byline: By...for charity. The great Greek philosopher Plato once observed: Those...a joy to visit. The Greeks themselves, always of...relaxed, and, yes, more Greek. Where else in the world...She is married to a Greek and specialises in individual...
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Love and What Makes It Last Forever; as Valentine's Day Looms, an Enchanting Ref Lection on the Meaning and Power of Love, and the Mystery of Why, When Ephemeral Beauty Fades, It Can Still Endure; SATURDAY ESSAY

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 11, 2012

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...repression comes to us from the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. By arguing that pure love must be purged...erotic, so as to focus on eternal truth, Plato saddled us with one of the most destructive myths in the history of humanity. This is not...
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ISLAND OF DREAMS; as Some on Orkney Campaign for a Road Link to the Mainland, Is It Wise to Give Up the Unique Culture and Heritage of a Singular Way of Life?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 14, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...before the birth of Christ, the Greek philosopher Plato invented the imaginary island of...essentially the same as that made by Plato, Shakespeare and More and by Daniel...work sparkles with glimpses of myths and fairytales that rarely survive...

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Greek Religion

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...elements. This phase of Greek religion is called Homeric...Through a vast set of myths and legends (the clearest...future to humanity. The Greeks did not consider immortality...Olympian world. The Greeks, however, did expect...deities, and each of the Greek city-states came to...humans and god. It was Plato who made an absolute...

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