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Paperback Platonic Drama and Its Ancient Reception Book

ISBN: 1108439411

ISBN13: 9781108439411

Platonic Drama and Its Ancient Reception

(Part of the Cambridge Classical Studies Series)

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As prose dramatic texts Plato's dialogues would have been read by their original audience as an alternative type of theatrical composition. The 'paradox' of the dialogue form is explained by his appropriation of the discourse of theatre, the dominant public mode of communication of his time. The oral performance of his works is suggested both by the pragmatics of the publication of literary texts in the classical period and by his original role as...

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