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Introductions Ultimately, Plato's dialogues are arguably their own best introductions; as most readers will approach them in translation, we turn to these. Plato & Lamb 1925, the basis of the bilingual Loeb edition, remains quite useful; dynamic versions linked to current reference tools can be freely accessed at the several incarnations of the Perseus Project. (See record for links.) Recent readily-available editions without parallel Greek include the Hackett Plato & Woodruff 1983 (which contains analytical material omitted from the anthologized reprint of the translation), Plato & Saunders 1987, and Plato & Allen 1998. All three include introductory essays suitable for first-time readers of the dialogue. Bloom’s Straussian translation accompanies the reprint of his interpretive study in Plato 1987. By contrast, Murray 1998 and Plato & Rijksbaron 2007 contain new critical editions of the Greek text, with commentary but without translations. 
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  1. Plato's Ion & Meno. Plato - forthcoming - Audio CD.
    In Plato's Ion & Meno, Socrates questions Ion, an actor who just won a major prize, about his ability to interpret the epic poetry of Homer. As the dialogue proceeds, the nature of human creativity emerges as a mysterious process and an unsolved puzzle. A similar discussion between Socrates and Meno probes the subject of ethics. Can goodness be taught? If it can, then we should be able to find teachers capable of instructing others about what is good and bad, (...)
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  2. Plato’s Ion as an Ethical Performance.Toby Svoboda - 2021 - In Garry Hagberg (ed.), Fictional Worlds and the Moral Imagination. pp. 3-18.
    Plato’s Ion is primarily ethical rather than epistemological, investigating the implications of transgressing one’s own epistemic limits. The figures of Socrates and Ion are juxtaposed in the dialogue, Ion being a laughable, comic, ethically inferior character who cannot recognize his own epistemic limits, Socrates being an elevated, serious, ethically superior character who exhibits disciplined epistemic restraint. The point of the dialogue is to contrast Ion’s laughable state with the serious state of Socrates. In this sense, the dialogue’s central argument is (...)
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  3. Methodological and Metaphilosophical Lessons in Plato's Ion.Scott Forrest Aikin - 2017 - Journal of Ancient Philosophy 11 (1):1-19.
    From a detailed overview of Socrates’ exchange with Ion, light is shed on why Socrates’ method of elenchusrequires explicit accounts of concepts at issue. Moreover, Ion’s character is shown to provide an object lesson in the tempting vice of intellectual sycophancy.
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  4. Téchne and Enthousiasmós in Plato’s Critique of Poetry.Javier Aguirre - 2016 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 72 (1):181-198.
  5. The Muses rhapsodes : The analogy of the magnetic stone in Plato’s Ion.Sjuangong Wang - 2016 - In Reflections on Plato’s Poetics. pp. 137-149.
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  6. Comic Dramaturgy in Plato: Observations from the Ion.Marcus Mota - 2015 - In Gabriele Cornelli (ed.), Plato's Styles and Characters: Between Literature and Philosophy. De Gruyter. pp. 157-172.
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  7. Performance and Elenchos in Plato’s Ion.Fernando Muniz - 2015 - In Gabriele Cornelli (ed.), Plato's Styles and Characters: Between Literature and Philosophy. De Gruyter. pp. 187-202.
  8. Plato and the Catalogue Form in Ion.Mauro Tulli - 2015 - In Gabriele Cornelli (ed.), Plato's Styles and Characters: Between Literature and Philosophy. De Gruyter. pp. 203-210.
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  9. Hesiod's Proem And Plato's Ion.Suzanne Stern-Gillet - 2014 - Classical Quarterly 64 (1):25-42.
    Plato's Hesiod is a neglected topic, scholars having long regarded Plato's Homer as a more promising field of inquiry. My aim in this chapter is to demonstrate that this particular bias of scholarly attention, although understandable, is unjustified. Of no other dialogue is this truer than of the Ion.
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  10. Performance e Élenkhos no Íon de Platão.Fernando Muniz - 2012 - Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 9:17-25.
    No Íon, a autoridade e a sabedoria de poetas e rapsodos são confrontadas por meios indiretos. O caráter oblíquo dessa estratégia impede o acesso direto ao conteúdo do diálogo e provoca inúmeros equívocos de leitura. Um fato contextual estimula mais ainda leituras equivocadas. A poesia tratada no Íon difere muito da forma como nós, modernos, a entendemos. Na Antiguidade grega, de base aural, a poesia era o modo privilegiado de conservação da tradição herdada, e permaneceu exercendo essa função capital até (...)
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  11. Performance e Élenkhos no Íon de Platão.Fernando Muniz - 2012 - Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 9:17-25.
  12. The Agreement between Socrates and Homer: An Interpretation of Plato's Ion.Diego Dumé & Betiana Marinoni - 2011 - Philosophy Study 1 (1):22-27.
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  13. Plato. Ion. Or On the Iliad. [REVIEW]Mark Moes - 2010 - Ancient Philosophy 30 (1):172-175.
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  14. Plato: Ion, or On the Iliad. Edited with Introduction and Commentary by Albert Rijksbaron (Review).Robin Waterfield - 2010 - Heythrop Journal 51 (1):96-96.
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  15. Socrates.George Rudebusch - 2009 - Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
    _Socrates_ presents a compelling case for some life-changing conclusions that follow from a close reading of Socrates' arguments. Offers a highly original study of Socrates and his thought, accessible to contemporary readers Argues that through studying Socrates we can learn practical wisdom to apply to our lives Lovingly crafted with humour, thought-experiments and literary references, and with close reading sof key Socratic arguments Aids readers with diagrams to make clear complex arguments.
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  16. Plato: Ion or On the Iliad. Edited with Introduction and Commentary by Albert Rijksbaron. Plato & Albert Rijksbaron - 2007 - Brill.
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  17. Plato, Ion or: On the Iliad.Albert Rijksbaron - 2007 - Brill.
    This book presents a revised text of Plato's Ion, with full apparatus criticus, and an extensive commentary, with a linguistic orientation. Linguistic considerations are also the leading principle in the choice of one MS reading rather than another. Special attention is paid to questions of punctuation.
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  18. Plato's Ion and the Psychoanalytic theory of art.David Konstan - 2005 - Plato Journal 5.
  19. The Meaning of Plato's Ion.Benjamin A. Gorman - 2004 - Ergon (2).
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  20. A note on Schol. ad Pl. Ion_ 530A and _Resp. 373B.Martin Korenjak - 2004 - Classical Quarterly 54 (02):625-.
    αΨδσαι λγεται καí τó φλυαρσαι, τò áπλς †λαβεíν κπ´ παγγεîλαι χωρíς †ργου τινός. This is how W. C. Greene prints the last sentence of the Schol. ad Ion 530a αψδν, which is repeated ad Rep. 373b and in Photius, Suda, Et. Magn., and Lex. Bekk. s.v.αφδοί.
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  21. On interpreting Plato's Ion.Suzanne Stern-Gillet - 2004 - Phronesis 49 (2):169-201.
    Plato's "Ion," despite its frail frame and traditionally modest status in the corpus, has given rise to large exegetical claims. Thus some historians of aesthetics, reading it alongside page 205 of the Symposium, have sought to identify in it the seeds of the post-Kantian notion of 'art' as non-technical making, and to trace to it the Romantic conception of the poet as a creative genius. Others have argued that, in the "Ion," Plato has Socrates assume the existence of a technē (...)
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  22. Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras. [REVIEW]Thomas A. Blackson - 1999 - Review of Metaphysics 52 (3):659-660.
    Few recent events in the world of Platonic scholarship have caused more excitement than the publication of the initial volumes of R. E. Allen’s The Dialogues of Plato. Allen is on track to become the first scholar since Benjamin Jowett in the nineteenth century to produce a translation, with commentary, of all of Plato’s works. This feat is all the more impressive because Allen’s translations and comments thus far have been superb.
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  23. Plato on Poetry: Ion. P Murray.Elizabeth Belfiore - 1998 - The Classical Review 48 (1):20-21.
  24. The Dialogues of Plato. [REVIEW]A. Gocer - 1998 - Ancient Philosophy 18 (2):473-477.
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  25. The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3: Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras. Plato & R. E. Allen - 1998 - Yale University Press.
    R.E. Allen's superb new translations of four Socratic dialogues—_Ion_, _Hippias Minor_, _Laches_, and _Protagoras_—bring these classic texts to life for modern readers. Allen introduces and comments on the dialogues in an accessible way, inviting the reader to reexamine the issues continually raised in Plato's works. In his detailed commentary, Allen closely examines the major themes and central arguments of each dialogue, with particular emphasis on _Protagoras_. He clarifies each of Plato's arguments and its refutation; places the themes in historical perspective; (...)
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  26. Ion.Gene Fendt - 1997 - International Studies in Philosophy 29 (4):23-50.
    This reading of Plato's Ion shows that the philosophic action mimed and engendered by the dialogue thoroughly reverses its (and Plato's) often supposed philosophical point, revealing that poetry is just as defensible as philosophy, and only in the same way. It is by Plato's indirections we find true directions out: the war between philosophy and poetry is a hoax on Plato's part, and a mistake on the part of his literalist readers. The dilemma around which the dialogue moves is false, (...)
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  27. Plato: Ion; Hippias Minor; Laches; Protagoras. [REVIEW]Robin Waterfield - 1997 - The Classical Review 47 (2):415-416.
  28. The Self in Plato's "Ion".Raphael Woolf - 1997 - Apeiron 30 (3):189 - 210.
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  29. Plato on Poetry: Ion, Republic 376e-398b, Republic 595-608b. Plato & Penelope Murray - 1996 - Cambridge University Press.
    This is a commentary on selected texts of Plato concerned with poetry: the Ion and relevant sections of the Republic. It is the first commentary to present these texts together in one volume, and the first in English on Republic 2 and 3 and Ion for nearly 100 years. The introduction sets Plato's views in their Greek context and outlines their influence on later aesthetic thought. An important feature of the commentary is its exploration of the ambivalence of Plato's pronouncements (...)
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  30. Plato’s Ion on What Poetry Is About.T. F. Morris - 1993 - Ancient Philosophy 13 (2):265-272.
  31. Plato and the New Rhapsody.Dirk C. Baltzly - 1992 - Ancient Philosophy 12 (1):29-52.
    In Plato’s dialogues we often find Socrates talking at length about poetry. Sometimes he proposes censorship of certain works because what they say is false or harmful. Other times we find him interpreting the poets or rejecting potential interpretations of them. This raises the question of whether there is any consistent account to be given of Socrates’ practice as a literary critic. One might think that Plato himself in the Ion answers the question that I have raised. Rhapsody, at least (...)
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  32. Craft and Fineness in Plato's Ion'.Christopher Janaway - 1992 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 10:1-23.
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  33. Rhapsodic Plato? ION's Re-representation.M. Padilla - 1992 - Lexis 9.
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  34. Sharing Voices.Jean-Luc Nancy - 1990 - In Gayle Ormiston & Alan Schrift (eds.), Transforming the Hermeneutic Context: From Nietzsche to Nancy. SUNY.
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  35. Plato's Ion: The Problem of the Author.Nickolas Pappas - 1989 - Philosophy 64 (249):381-389.
    Today Plato's Ion, thought one of his weaker works, gets little attention. But in the past it has had its admirers–in 1821, for example, Percy Bysshe Shelley translated it into English. Shelley, like other Romantic readers of Plato, was drawn to the Ion's account of divine inspiration in poetry. He recommended the dialogue to Thomas Love Peacock as a reply to the latter's Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley thought the Ion would refute Peacock's charge that poetry is useless in a (...)
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  36. Plato on knowing a tradition.George Rudebusch - 1988 - Philosophy East and West 38 (3):324-333.
    The success of relativism as a solution to skeptical problems depends upon the relativist's object of knowledge being invulnerable to the same skeptical doubts which we might have about the undiscovered world. Naturally, therefore, a traditional Platonic response is to argue that the relativist's selected object of knowledge cannot be known apart from knowledge of the undiscovered world. This indeed is the Platonic thesis of this article, as it applies to tradition. I begin by giving a philosophical analysis of tradition.
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  37. The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues. Translated, with Interpretive Studies.427-347 B. C. Plato (ed.) - 1987 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
    Opening an entirely new dimension of Platonic studies, this volume addresses major themes: the nature of law, property, and acquisitiveness; Socrates' famous "demonic voice"; the poetic claim to inspiration; and the psychology of the...
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  38. Plato's Critique of Postmodernism.David L. Roochnik - 1987 - Philosophy and Literature 11 (2):282-291.
  39. Two Comic Dialogues: Ion and Hippias Major. Plato & Paul Woodruff - 1983 - Hackett Publishing Company.
    Together these two dialogues contain Plato’s most important work on poetry and beauty.
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  40. Socrates and the Rhapsode: Plato's Ion.Donald E. Hargis - 1977 - In Esther M. Doyle & Virginia Hastings Floyd (eds.), Studies in Interpretation Vol. II. Editions Rodopi.
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  41. The Ion: Plato's characterizatIon of art.Kenneth Dorter - 1973 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (1):65-78.
  42. An Interpretation of Plato's Ion.Allan Bloom - 1970 - Interpretation 1 (1):43-62.
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  43. Plato's idea of poetical inspiration.Eugène Napoleon Tigerstedt - 1969 - Helsinki,: Helsinki.
    The second article, in which the author suggests an analysis of other three authors' state of nature models and tries to define the role of the models in their respective law concepts. The analysis demonstrates that all three models share same basic idea, which is the concept of an independent reasonable individual; this very idea is what these different models are based upon. The concept of an individual itself does not have a substantiation.
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  44. Plato and inspiration.Robert Edgar Carter - 1967 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 5 (2):111-121.
  45. The drama of Plato's "Ion".Jerrald Ranta - 1967 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 26 (2):219-229.
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  46. The Platonic Ion.H. C. Baldry - 1960 - The Classical Review 10 (02):113-.
  47. The Platonic Ion Hellmut Flashar: Der Dialog Ion als Zeugnis platonischer Philosophie. (Akad. der Wiss. zu Berlin, Schr. der Sektion für Altertumswiss., 14.) Pp. vi + 144. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1958. Paper, DM. 18. [REVIEW]H. C. Baldry - 1960 - The Classical Review 10 (02):113-115.
  48. Plato's Io.W. J. Verdenius - 1960 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 150:231-231.
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  49. H. Flashar, Der Dialog Ion als Zeugnis Platonischer Philosophie.Werner Beierwaltes - 1959 - Philosophische Rundschau 7 (1):70.
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  50. Der Dialog Ion als Zeugnis platonischer Philosophie.Hellmut Flashar - 1958 - Akademie Verlag.
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