...Jonathan Lavery After a review of some general issues surrounding the interpretation of Plato's dialogues, I consider in detail the reception of Plato's Protagoras in English scholarship since 1956, that is, during the last half century. That scholarship falls into three periods. At first (1956-82...

... and Epicurus,” in Ancient Approaches to the `Timaeus, supplement vol. 78 of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies , edited by Robert W. Sharples and Anne Sheppard, 49 -71 (London: ICS). 2004 “Plato Protagoras 340-48: Commentary in the Making?” in Adamson et al. 2004, 1 : 21 -35. 2006...

... of the reception of his dialogues. My own contribution, “Plato’s Protagoras and the Frontier of Genre Research,” surveys a cross section of critical, exegetical scholarship on Plato since 1956 (exactly half a century from the time I write this). During this time, a now-familiar set of approaches to Plato...

... Phaedo . Translated by Grube G. M. A. , in Cooper, Plato: Complete Works , 49 – 100 . 1997f Phaedrus . Translated by Nehamas Alexander Woodruff Paul , in Cooper, Plato: Complete Works , 507 – 56 . 1997g Protagoras . Translated by Lombardo Stanley Bell Karen...

... and Protagoras , translated by Allen R. E. ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press ). Robbe-Grillet Alain 2001 Entretiens avec Benoît Peeters , DVD ( Brussels : Les Impressions Nouvelles/Institut de l’édition contemporaine ). Robbe-Grillet Alain 2005 Préface à une vie...

... : Continuum . Pfau Thomas . 2005 . Romantic Moods . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . Plato . 1977 . Laches, Protagoras, Meno, Euthydemus , translated by Lamb W. R. M. . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Plato . 2005 . Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo...

... of the Gorgias (to answer the first question) but also discussions of other dialogues (to answer the second); evidence from the Euthydemus, Euthyphro, and Protagoras (to answer the third); a discussion (for the fourth) of the “developmental hypothesis,” according to which Plato’s views changed...

... interlocutors, supporting the position of the Nolan. This (dis)appearance of the author is programmatic: Bruno inten- tionally eschews the dialogic scheme of a master who expounds and a pupil 42.  See also Jonathan Lavery’s contribution, “Plato’s Protagoras and the Frontier of Genre Research,” in part...