Lexington Books
Pages: 292
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-7936-3904-2 • Hardback • May 2021 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
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Nicholas Thorne received his PhD in classics and ancient philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh.
Introduction
Thucydides: Introduction
(1) Periclean Athens
(2) Post-Periclean Athens
(3) Alcibiadean Athens
Thucydides: Conclusion
Plato – A Holistic Approach to the Gorgias and Republic I
The Gorgias: Introduction
Shame and the Ad Hominem Arguments
(1) Gorgias
(2) Polus
(3) Callicles
How Callicles is Good: Platonic Doctrine in the Gorgias
Socrates in the Gorgias
Republic I
(1) Cephalus
(2) Polemarchus
(3) Thrasymachus
Republic I: Conclusion
The Gorgias and the First Book of the Republic: Connections and Comparison
Conclusion
Works Cited
"Combining careful scholarship with brilliant commentary, this book does far more than show us how Thucydides and Plato understood their cultural crisis. Using them as a distant mirror, it gives us glimpses of solutions to our own."
— Patrick Lee Miller, Duquesne University