Anthologies of Plato’s Myths

• Partenie, C. (ed.), 2004, Plato. Selected Myths, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reissued 2009; Kindle edition 2012. (Scholar)
• Stewart, J. A., 1905, The Myths of Plato, translated with introductory and other observations, London & New York: Macmillan. 2^nd edition, London: Centaurus Press, 1960. 3^rd edition, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. (Scholar)

Short introductions to Plato’s myths

• Most, G. W., 2012, “Plato’s Exoteric Myths”, in C. Collobert, P. Destrée and F. J. Gonzales (eds.), Plato and Myth. Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths (Mnemosyne Supplements, 337), Leiden-Boston: Brill, 13–24. (Scholar)
• Murray, P., 1999, “What Is a Muthos for Plato?”, in R. Buxton (ed.), From Myth to Reason? Studies in the Development of Greek Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 251–262. (Scholar)
• Partenie, C., L. Brisson, and J. Dillon, 2004, “Introduction”, in C. Partenie (ed.), Plato. Selected Myths, Oxford: Oxford University Press, xiii–xxx. Reissued 2009; Kindle edition 2012. (Scholar)
• Partenie, C., 2009, “Introduction”, in C. Partenie (ed.), Plato’s Myths, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1–27. Reprinted 2011. (Scholar)

Articles and books on Plato’s myths

• Annas, J., 1982, “Plato’s Myths of Judgement”, Phronesis, 27: 119–43. (Scholar)
• Brisson, L., 1998, Plato the Myth Maker [Platon, les mots et les mythes], translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gerard Naddaf, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar) (Scholar)
• A. Capra, A., 2017, “Seeing through Plato’s Looking Glass. Mythos and Mimesis from Republic to Poetics”, Aisthesis 1(1): 75–86. (Scholar)
• Collobert, C., Destrée, P., Gonzales, F. J. (eds.), 2012, Plato and Myth. Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths (Mnemosyne Supplements, 337), Leiden-Boston: Brill. (Scholar) (Scholar)
• Edmonds, III, R. G., 2004, Myths of the Underworld Journey. Plato, Aristophanes and the “Orphic” Gold Tablets, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Fowler, R., 2011, “Mythos and logos”, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 131: 45–66. (Scholar)
• Frutiger, P., 1976, Les Mythes de Platon, New York: Arno Press. Originally published in 1930. (Scholar)
• Gill, Ch., 1993, “Plato on Falsehood—Not Fiction”, in Ch. Gill and T. P. Wiseman (eds.), Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 38–87. (Scholar)
• Griswold Jr., C. J., 1996, “Excursus: Myth in the Phaedrus and the Unity of the Dialogue”, in Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Phaedrus, University Park: Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 138–156. (Scholar)
• Howland, J., 2006. “The Mythology of Philosophy: Plato’s Republic and the Odyssey of the Soul”, Interpretation. A Journal of Political Philosophy, 33 (3): 219–242. (Scholar)
• Hyland, D., 2015, “The Animals That Therefore We Were? Aristophanes’s Double–Creatures and the Question of Origins”, in J. Bell, J. & M. Naas (eds.), Plato’s Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 193–205. (Scholar)
• Janka, M., and Schäfer, C. (eds.), 2002, Platon als Mythologe. Neue Interpretationen zu den Mythen in Platons Dialogen, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. (Scholar)
• Lear, J., 2006, “Allegory and Myth in Plato’s Republic”, in G. Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato’s Republic, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 25–43. (Scholar)
• Mattéi, J.F., 2002, Platon et le miroir du mythe: De l’âge d’or à l’Atlantide, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. (Scholar)
• Mattéi, J.F., 1988, “The Theatre of Myth in Plato”, in C. J. Griswold Jr., (ed.), Platonic Writings, Platonic Readings, University Park: Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 66–83. (Scholar)
• Morgan, K., 2000, Myth and Philosophy from the pre-Socratics to Plato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Naddaf, G., 2016, “Poetic Myths of the Afterlife: Plato’s Last Song”, in Rick Benitez and Keping Wang (eds.), Refelections on Plato’s Poetics, Berrima: Academic Printing and Publishing, 111–136. (Scholar)
• Partenie, C. (ed.), 2009, Plato’s Myths, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprinted 2011. (Scholar)
• Pieper, J., 2011, The Platonic Myths, with an introduction by James V. Schall, translated from the German by Dan Farrelly, South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press. Originally published in 1965. (Scholar)
• Saunders, T.J., 1973, “Penology and Eschatology in Plato’s Timaeus and Laws”, Classical Quarterly, n.s. 23(2): 232–44. (Scholar)
• Sedley, D., 1990, “Teleology and Myth in the Phaedo”, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 5: 359–83. (Scholar) (Scholar)
• Segal, C., 1978, “‘The Myth Was Saved’: Reflections on Homer and the Mythology of Plato’s Republic”, Hermes 106 (2): 315–336. (Scholar)
• Werner, D., 2012, Myth and Philosophy in Plato’s Phaedrus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• White, D. A., 2012, Myth, Metaphysics and Dialectic in Plato’s Statesman, Hampshire & Burlington: Ashgate. (Scholar)
• Wians, W. (ed.), Logos and Muthos. Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature, New York: SUNY Press.

Plato’s myths in the Platonist tradition

• Dillon, John, 2004, “Plato’s Myths in the Later Platonist Tradition”, in C. Partenie (ed.), Plato. Selected Myths, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. xxvi–xxx. Reissued 2009; Kindle edition 2012. (Scholar)
• Brisson, L., 2004, How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology [Introduction à la philosophie du mythe, vol. I: Sauver les mythes], Catherine Tihanyi (tr.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)

Renaissance illustrations of Plato’s myths

• Chastel, A., 1959, Art et humanisme à Florence au temps de Laurent le Magnifique, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. (Scholar)
• McGrath, E., 1983. “‘The Drunken Alcibiades’: Rubens’s Picture of Plato’s Symposium”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 46: 228–35. (Scholar)
• McGrath, E., 1994, “From Parnassus to Careggi. A Florentine Celebration of Renaissance Platonism”, in J. Onians (ed.), Sight and Insight: Essays on Art and Culture in Honour of E. H. Gombrich at 85, London: Phaidon, 190–220. (Scholar)
• McGrath, E., 2009, “Platonic myths in Renaissance iconography”, in C. Partenie (ed.), Plato’s Myths, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 206–238. (Scholar) (Scholar)
• Vinken, P.J., 1960, “H.L. Spiegel’s Antrum Platonicum. A Contribution to the Iconology of the Heart”, Oud Holland, 75: 125–42. (Scholar)

References Cited

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• Annas, J., 1982, “Plato’s Myths of Judgement”, Phronesis, 27: 119–43. (Scholar)
• Bell, J., Naas, M. (eds.), 2015, Plato’s Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Bossi, B., and Robinson, T. M. (eds), 2018, Plato’s Statesman Revisited, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. (Scholar)
• Buxton, R. (ed.), 1999, From Myth to Reason? Studies in the Development of Greek Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Brisson, L., 1998, Plato the Myth Maker [Platon, les mots et les mythes], translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gerard Naddaf, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Burnyeat, M. F., 2009, “Eikōs muthos”, in C. Partenie (ed.), Plato’s Myths, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 167–186. (Scholar)
• Collobert, C., Destrée, P., Gonzales, F. J. (eds.), 2012, Plato and Myth. Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths (Mnemosyne Supplements, 337), Leiden-Boston: Brill. (Scholar)
• Cornford, F.M., 1937, Plato’s Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato, translated with a running commentary, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Scholar)
• Dorion, L.-A., 2012, “The Delphic Oracle on Socrates’ Wisdom: A Myth?”, in C. Collobert, P. Destrée and F. J. Gonzales (eds.), Plato and Myth. Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths (Mnemosyne Supplements, 337), Leiden-Boston: Brill, 419–434. (Scholar)
• Edmonds, III, R. G., 2004, Myths of the Underworld Journey. Plato, Aristophanes, and the “Orphic” Gold Tablets, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Ferrari, G. R. F. (ed.), 2007, The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Folch, M., 2015, The City and the Stage: Performance, Genre, and Gender in Plato’s Laws, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Fossheim, H., Songe-Møller, V., and Ågotnes, K. (eds.), 2019, Philosophy as Drama. Plato’s Thinking Through Dialogue, London and New York: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• Fowler, R., 2011, “Mythos and logos ”, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 131: 45–66. (Scholar)
• Gonzalez, F. J., 2012, “Combating Oblivion: The Myth of Er as Both Philosophy’s Challenge and Inspiration”, in C. Collobert, P. Destrée and F. J. Gonzales (eds.), Plato and Myth. Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths (Mnemosyne Supplements, 337), Leiden-Boston: Brill, 259–278. (Scholar)
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• Howland, J., 2006. “The Mythology of Philosophy: Plato’s Republic and the Odyssey of the Soul”, Interpretation. A Journal of Political Philosophy, 33 (3): 219–242. (Scholar)
• Hyland, D., 2015, “The Animals That Therefore We Were? Aristophanes’s Double–Creatures and the Question of Origins”, in J. Bell, J. & M. Naas (eds.), Plato’s Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 193–205. (Scholar)
• Inwood, M., 2009, “Plato’s eschatological myths”, in Catalin Partenie (ed.), Plato’s Myths, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 28–50. (Scholar)
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• McGrath, E., 2009, “Platonic myths in Renaissance iconography”, in C. Partenie (ed.), Plato’s Myths, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 206–238. (Scholar)
• Miller, F. D., 2011, “Socrates Mythologikos”, in G. Anagnostopoulos (ed.), Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian Studies: Essays in Honor of Gerasimos Santas, Dordrecht: Springer, 75–92. (Scholar)
• Morgan, K, 2000, Myth and Philosophy from the pre-Socratics to Plato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Morgan, K., 2003, “The Tyranny of the Audience in Plato and Isocrates”, in K. Morgan (ed.), Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece, Austin: University of Texas Press, 181–213. (Scholar)
• Most, G. W., 2012, “Plato’s Exoteric Myths”, in C. Collobert, P. Destrée and F. J. Gonzales (eds.), Plato and Myth. Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths (Mnemosyne Supplements, 337), Leiden-Boston: Brill, 13–24. (Scholar)
• Naas, M., 2018a, Plato and the Invention of Life, New York: Fordham University Press. (Scholar)
• Naas, M., 2018b, “Plato and the Spectacle of Laughter”, in Russell Ford (ed.), Why So Serious: On Philosophy and Comedy, London: Routledge, 13–26. (Scholar)
• Nails, D. 2002, The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics, Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing. (Scholar)
• Natali, C. and Maso, S. (eds.), 2003, Plato Physicus: Cosmologia e antropologia nel Timeo, Amsterdam: Adolf Hakkert. (Scholar)
• Nightingale, A., 2021, Philosophy and Religion in Plato’s Dialogues, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• O’Meara, D. J., 2017, Cosmology and Politics in Plato’s Later Works, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Partenie, C. (ed.), 2009, Plato’s Myths, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprinted 2011. (Scholar)
• Plato, 1997, Complete Works, edited with an Introduction and notes by J. M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson associate editor, Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)
• Press, G., and Duque, M. (eds), 2022, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato, London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scholar)
• Puchner, M., 2010, The Drama of Ideas. Platonic Provocations in Theatre and Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Rowe, Ch., 1999, “Myth, History, and Dialectic in Plato’s Republic and Timaeus-Critias”, in R. Buxton (ed.), From Myth to Reason? Studies in the Development of Greek Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 251–262. (Scholar)
• Rowe, Ch., 2003, “The Status of the ‘Myth’ in Plato’s Timaeus”, in C. Natali and S. Maso (eds.), Plato Physicus: Cosmologia e antropologia nel Timeo, Amsterdam: Adolf Hakkert, 21–31. (Scholar)
• Sallis, J. (ed.), 2017, Plato’s Statesman. Dialectic, Myth, and Politics, New York: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• Schofield, M., 2009, “Fraternité, inégalité, la parole de Dieu: Plato’s authoritarian myth of political legitimation”, in C. Partenie (ed.), Plato’s Myths, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 101–115. (Scholar)
• Sedley, D., 1990, “Teleology and Myth in the Phaedo”, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 5: 359–83. (Scholar)
• Sedley, D., 2009, “Myth, Punishment and Politics in the Gorgias”, in C. Partenie (ed.), Plato’s Myths, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 51–76. (Scholar)
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