Platonic Drama And Its Ancient Reception

This book studies the reception of Plato's dialogues as performance texts both by his original audience and by his readers down to late antiquity. A combination of well-known and newly discovered pieces of literary and archaeological evidence tell the forgotten story of 'Plato the playwright'.

• | By (Author): Nikos G. (University Of Patras, Greece) Charalabopoulos
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 05, 2012
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 354 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0521871743
• | ISBN-13: 9780521871747