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    The moral of the story: on fables and philosophy in Plato's 'Symposium'
    Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) 1 1-14. 2015.
    Scholars have puzzled over the fact that Plato’s criticisms of poetry are themselves contained in mimetic works. This paper sheds light on that phenomenon by examining an analogous one. The Symposium contains one fable which is criticised by means of another which is thought to represent Plato’s own view. Diotima’s fable, however, is suspended within a larger narrative that invites us to examine and question it. The Symposium thus affords opportunity to observe Plato’s criticisms of a genre and …Read more
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    The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues by J. B. Kennedy (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (3): 478-480. 2013.
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    Plato’s Introduction of Forms, by R.M. Dancy (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 27 (1): 180-184. 2007.
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    Boy! What Boy?
    Ancient Philosophy 36 (1): 107-114. 2016.
    This paper corrects the common misconception that Meno's slave (in Plato's dialogue of that name) is a boy. The first part of the paper shows how long-standing and widespread that misconception is. The description of Meno's slave as a "slave-boy" goes back at least to Benjamin Jowett, and the phrase is still commonly seen today in books and journal articles in philosophy and classics generally, even in presses and journals with the highest reputation. The paper then shows that the Greek term pa…Read more
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    Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy (review)
    The Classical Review 64 (2): 354-355. 2014.