Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws

Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi is Professor of Classics at Stanford University. She works on Greek aesthetics as reflected and debated in poetic and philosophical texts. Her book, Frontiers of Pleasure: Models of Aesthetic Response in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought, was published in 2012.

1. Introduction Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi; Part I. Geopolitics of Performance: 2. Cretan harmonies and universal morals: early music and migrations of wisdom in Plato's Laws Mark Griffith; 3. Strictly ballroom: Egyptian mousike and Plato's comparative poetics Ian Rutherford; Part II. Conceptualising Chorality: 4. Choral practices in Plato's Laws: itineraries of initiation? Claude Calame; 5. The chorus of Dionysus: alcohol and old age in the Laws Oswyn Murray; 6. Imagining chorality: wonder, Plato's puppets and moving statutes Leslie Kurke; 7. Broken rhythms in Plato's Laws: materializing social time in the khoros Barbara Kowalzig; 8. Choral anti-aesthetics Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi; Part III. Redefining Genre: 9. The orphaned word: the pharmakon of forgetfulness in Plato's Laws Andrea Nightingale; 10. Praise and performance in Plato's Laws Kathryn Morgan; 11. Paides malakôn mousôn: tragedy in Plato's Laws Penelope Murray; 12. The rhetoric of rhapsody in Plato's Laws Richard Martin; 13. The unideal genres of the ideal city: comedy, threnody, and the making of citizens in Plato's Laws Marcus Folch; Part IV. Poetry and Music in the Afterlife of the Laws: 14. Deregulating poetry: Callimachus' response to Plato's Laws Susan Stephens; 15. The Laws and Aristoxenus on the criteria of musical judgement Andrew Barker.