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Author(s): Kyriakos Demetriou
ISBN(s): 9781409420514, 1409420515
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Year: 2011
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ISBN 10: 1409420515 
ISBN 13: 9781409420514
Author: Kyriakos Demetriou

This collection of essays focuses on the reception of Plato and Greek political thought in the work of some major (pre)Victorian classical scholars and expands on a remarkable range of hotly debated issues on the interpretation of Greek antiquity. The central figure in this volume is the radical philosopher, utilitarian, and Platonist George Grote, whose works on the history of Greece and Plato moved away from traditional models of classical interpretation. His works and their background are critically explored in light of his philosophical commitment and political radicalism. Article IV brings to light a forgotten manuscript by Grote, “On the Character of Socrates,” produced in the 1820s. Grote sought to counter the current literature on ancient Greece and its predominant motifs, which is here examined in its own right along with an independent study on Bishop Connop Thirlwall’s influential History of Greece. The second half of this volume is devoted to analyzing important aspects of the revival of Platonic studies in the ideological and discursive context of early and middle Victorian times. This collection of essays presents comprehensive and illuminating contextual analyses of nineteenth-century works on classical reception, providing simultaneously a rich bibliographic guide to further research.

Studies on the Reception of Plato and Greek Political Thought in Victorian Britain 1st Table of contents:

I In defence of the British Constitution: theoretical implications of the debate over Athenian democracy in Britain, 1770–1850
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II Bishop Connop Thirlwall: historian of ancient Greece
The Scholar and Bishop of St. David’s
The background of the History of Greece
The History of Greece
The spell of the Macedonians
A most honourable «failure»
III Victorian classicists and modern Greece: a critical commentary on periodical sources
I Racial Continuity and Classical Survivals
II Three Classical Scholars on Modern Greece
II.1 John Stuart Blackie (1809–95)
II.2 Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–92)
II.3 John Pentland Mahaffy (1839–1919)
III Concluding Remarks
Platonic Studies
IV Grote on Socrates: an unpublished essay of the 1820s in its context
The Character of Socrates
Notes
V The development of Platonic studies in Britain and the role of the utilitarians
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VI George Grote and the Platonic revival in Victorian Britain
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VII Socratic dialectic and the exaltation of individuality: J.S. Mill’s influence on G. Grote’s Platonic interpretation
I. The ‘Riddle’
II. A New Definition of Platonism
III. Socratic Dialectic and the Art of Living
IV. The ‘Two Platos’ Argument
V. Conclusion
VIII The revival of a legend: the debate over Plato in nineteenth-century Britain
I. Plato: Utilitarian or Christian?
II. The Idealist Plato
III. Plato and the Metaphysical Theory of the State
IX The sophists, democracy, and modern interpretation

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