The Cratylus of Plato: A Commentary

The Cratylus, one of Plato's most difficult and intriguing dialogues, explores the relations between a name and the thing it names. The questions that arise lead the characters to face a number of major issues: truth and falsehood, relativism, the possibility of a perfect language, the relation between the investigation of names and that of reality, the Heraclitean flux theory and the Theory of Forms. This is the first full-scale commentary on the Cratylus and offers a definitive interpretation of the dialogue. It contains translations of the passages discussed and a line-by-line analysis which deals with textual matters and unravels Plato's dense and subtle arguments, reaching a novel interpretation of some of the dialogue's main themes as well as of many individual passages. The book is intended primarily for graduate students and scholars, both philosophers and classicists, but presupposes no previous acquaintance with the subject and is accessible to undergraduates.

Author: Francesco Ademollo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/26/2018
Pages: 558
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9781108458276

About the Author
Ademollo, Francesco: - Francesco Ademollo studied classics at Università degli Studi di Firenze and has held postdoctoral research positions at Università degli Studi di Firenze and at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He currently teaches Greek and Latin at the Liceo Classico Galileo in Florence.