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Plato and myth : studies on the use and status of Platonic myths
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Plato and myth : studies on the use and status of Platonic myths

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Based chiefly on a conference held in May 2008 at the University of Ottawa.

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Plato's exoteric myths / Glenn W. Most
Myth and interpretation / Monique Dixsaut
Literal and deeper meanings in Platonic myths / Harold Tarrant
The freedom of Platonic myth / G.R.F. Ferrari
The Platonic art of myth-making: myth as informative Phantasma / Catherine Collobert
Spectacles from Hades. On Plato's myths and allegories in the Republic / Pierre Destrée
The pragmatics of "Myth" in Plato's Dialogues: the story of Prometheus in the Protagoras / Claude Calame
Religion and morality. elements of Plato's anthropology in the myth of Prometheus (PROTAGORAS, 320D-322D) / Gerd Van Riel
Whip scars on the naked soul: myth and Elenchos in Plato's Gorgias / Radcliffe G. Edmonds
The status of the myth of the Gorgias, or: taking Plato seriously / Christopher Rowe
The rivers of Tartarus: Plato's geography of dying and coming-back-to-life / Elizabeth Pender
Choice of lire and self-transformation in the myth of Er / Annie Larivée
Combating oblivion: the myth of Er as both philosophy's challenge and inspiration / Francisco J. Gonzalez
The myth of Theuth in the Phaedrus / Christopher Moore
Myth and truth in Plato's Phaedrus / Franco Trabattoni
Theriomorphism and the composite soul in Plato / Kathryn Morgan
Myth, image and likeness in Plato's Timaeus / Elsa Grasso
Why is the Timaeus called an Eikôs Muthos and an Eikôs Logos? / Luc Brisson
Why two epochs of human history? On the myth of the Statesman / Christoph Horn
The Delphic oracle on Socrates' wisdom: a myth? / Louis-André Dorion.

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