Plato's missing dialogue Gill, Mary Louise 1950- creator text enk Oxford Oxford University Press 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (x, 290 p.) This text presents a bold new explanation of why the dialogue which Plato promised to write on the Philosopher, complementing the Sophist and the Statesman, is missing. It argues that he left it unwritten in order to stimulate his readers and encourage them to work out, for themselves, the portrait it would have contained. specialized Mary Louise Gill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Plato B395 184 9780191741890 (ebook) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199606184.001.0001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199606184.001.0001 StDuBDS 121025 20150804193928.0 EDZ0000105632