"This book contains the complete Greek text of Plato's Ion, an English translation of it, and an in-depth analysis"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references
Greek text of the Ion, divided into thirty equal units, with an English translation -- Vocabulary and meaning -- The arithmetic of a conversation some statistics from the Ion -- The compositional date and dramatic time of the Ion -- Homer, singers, and rhapsodes -- The rhapsode and the panathenaea -- Homer and the hexameter -- The homeric handbook -- Ion and the Ionians -- Plato and Euripides -- A note on Ion's tent -- Plato and the pre-Socratics -- Socrates: the new rhapsode -- Apollo's number -- An interpretation of the Ion
