Francesco Ademollo

The Cratylus of Plato

A Commentary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a full-scale commentary on the Cratylus, one of Plato's most difficult and intriguing dialogues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9780521763479
• ISBN-10: 0521763479
• Artikelnr.: 31192317

Autorenporträt

Francesco Ademollo studied classics at Università degli Studi di Firenze and has held postdoctoral research positions at Università degli Studi di Firenze and at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He currently teaches Greek and Latin at the Liceo Classico Galileo in Florence.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Cratylus' naturalism (383a-384c)
2. Hermogenes' conventionalism (383a-384c)
3. Naturalism defended (386e-390e)
4. Naturalism unfolded (390e-394e)
5. Naturalism illustrated: the etymologies of 'secondary' names (394e-421c)
6. Naturalism illustrated: the primary names (421c-427c)
7. Naturalism discussed (427e-433c)
8. Naturalism refuted and conventionalism defended (433b-439b)
9. Flux and forms (439b-440e)
Appendix 1. The text of 437d10-438b8
Appendix 2. Some interpolations and non-mechanical errors.