- Title
- The Theaetetus as a narrative dialogue?
- Creator
- Tarrant, Harold
- Relation
- 31st Conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS 31). ASCS 31 [2010] Proceedings: Refereed papers from the 31st Conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (Perth, W.A. 2-5 February, 2010)
- Relation
- http://msc.uwa.edu.au/classics/ascs31
- Publisher
- Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- The recent study of Plato's Cratylus by Sedley has offered us exceptional evidence of the later revision of a fairly early work by Plato. Earlier the works of Holger Thesleff gave prominence to the idea that two of Plato's longer dialogues, now preserved in the direct or dramatic manner of presentation, were originally written in narrative form, and then later converted to dramatic form as the result of a significant revision. I here wish to demonstrate the extent to which recent computer-analysis of Plato's vocabulary, undertaken for entirely different purposes, is able to support Thesleffs thesis. Narrative and dramatic form may be seen as distinguishing two sub-genres of Plato's work, even though some narrative works have been provided with a limited 'frame' in dramatic form and some dramatic works contain reported conversations that have taken place or might take place. The fact that the difference in sub-genre may not consistently be obvious to the reader does not alter the expectation that a somewhat different linguistic mix will generally apply.
- Subject
- Plato; narrative dialogue; dramatic form; genre
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/935858
- Identifier
- uon:12151
- Language
- eng
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