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    Sophocles, Antigone 1226–301
    Classical Quarterly 41 (1): 26-29. 1991.
    ‘Unhappy boy, what a deed you have done! What came into your mind? What disaster destroyed your reason?’ This version of 1228–9, by Andrew Brown in his recent commentary, represents the majority opinion. But what ‘deed’ has Haemon done that justifies such an outburst? Jebb, followed by Kamerbeek and Brown, claims that the deed which causes Creon to wail aloud with charges of insanity is Haemon's entry into Antigone's tomb. Kamerbeek and Brown justify the extremity of Creon's reaction by claiming…Read more
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    Rethinking the Elenchus (review)
    The Classical Review 55 (2): 426-428. 2005.
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    Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view of poetry and the first to connect the Socratic view of poetry with earlier literary tradition. Literary theory is usually said to begin with Plato's famous critique of poetry in the Republic. Grace Ledbetter challenges this entrenched assumption by arguing that Plato's earlier dialogues Ion, Protagor…Read more
  • This thesis first considers a question about Plato's causal terminology, and then turns to particular questions about active causation in the Phaedo and Timaeus. I argue that the terms aitia and aition do not in Plato mark a distinction between propositional and non-propositional items, but do indeed have different ranges of meaning: aitia, but not aition, can refer to someone's reason or ground. I then turn to the Phaedo and argue that Plato is there largely concerned with causal explanation. T…Read more
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    Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view of poetry and the first to connect the Socratic view of poetry with earlier literary tradition.Literary theory is usually said to begin with Plato's famous critique of poetry in the Republic. Grace Ledbetter challenges this entrenched assumption by arguing that Plato's earlier dialogues Ion, Protagora…Read more
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    Sophocles, Antigone 1226–30
    Classical Quarterly 41 (01): 26-. 1991.
    ‘Unhappy boy, what a deed you have done! What came into your mind? What disaster destroyed your reason?’ This version of 1228–9, by Andrew Brown in his recent commentary, represents the majority opinion. But what ‘deed’ has Haemon done that justifies such an outburst? Jebb, followed by Kamerbeek and Brown, claims that the deed which causes Creon to wail aloud with charges of insanity is Haemon's entry into Antigone's tomb. Kamerbeek and Brown justify the extremity of Creon's reaction by claiming…Read more
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    Plato’s Literary Garden (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 17 (2): 447-451. 1997.
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    Achilles' self-address: Iliad 16.7-19
    American Journal of Philology 114 (4): 481-491. 1993.
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    Plato’s Literary Garden (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 17 (2): 447-451. 1997.