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Plato and MythStudies on the Use and Status of Platonic MythsEdited by Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée and Francisco J. GonzalezBrill, Mnemosyne Supplements, Volume: 337ISSN: 0169-8958ISBN13: 9789004218666http://www.brill.nl/plato-and-mythTable of contentsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsNoteIntroduction, Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée and Francisco J. GonzalezPart I. Reflections on the Nature of Platonic MythsChapter One. Plato’s Exoteric Myths, Glenn W. MostChapter Two. Myth and Interpretation, Monique DixsautChapter Three. Literal and Deeper Meanings in Platonic Myth, Harold TarrantChapter Four. The Freedom of Platonic Myth, G. R. F. FerrariChapter Five. The Platonic Art of Myth Making: Myths as informative Phantasmata, Catherine CollobertChapter Six. Spectacles from Hades. On Plato’s Myths and Allegories in the Republic, Pierre DestréePart II. Approaches to Platonic MythsChapter Seven. The Pragmatics of ‘Myth’ in Plato’s Dialogues: The Story of Prometheus in the Protagoras, Claude CalameChapter Eight. Religion and Morality. Elements of Plato’s Anthropology in the Myth of Prometheus, Gerd Van RielChapter Nine. Whip Scars on the Naked Soul: Myth and Elenchos in Plato's Gorgias, Radcliffe G. Edmonds IIIChapter Ten. The Status of the Myth of the Gorgias, or: Taking Plato Seriously, Christopher RoweChapter Eleven. The Rivers of the Underworld: Plato’s Geography of Dying and Coming-back-to-Life, Elizabeth PenderChapter Twelve. Choice of Life and Self-Transformation in the Myth of Er, Annie LarivéeChapter Thirteen. Combating Oblivion: The Myth of Er as both Philosophy’s Challenge and Inspiration, Francisco J. GonzalezChapter Fourteen. The Myth of Theuth in the Phaedrus, Christopher MooreChapter Fifteen. Myth and Truth in Plato's Phaedrus, Franco TrabattoniChapter Sixteen. Theriomorphism and the composite Soul in Plato, Kathryn MorganChapter Seventeen. Myth, Image and Likeness in Plato’s Timaeus, Elsa GrassoChapter Eighteen. Why is the Timaeus called an eikôs muthos and an eikôs logos?, Luc BrissonChapter Nineteen. Why two Epochs of Human History ? On the Myth of the Stateman, Christoph HornChapter Twenty. The Delphic Oracle on Socrates’ Wisdom: A Myth?, Louis-André DorionReferencesIndex locorum