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Editors' Introduction: Plato's Menagerie Part I. The Animal of Fable and Myth 1. Making Music with Aesop's Fables in the Phaedo / Heidi Northwood 2. Talk to the Animals: On the Myth of Cronos in the Statesman / David Farrell Krell Part II. Socrates as muops and nark 3. American Gadfly: Plato and the Problem of Metaphor / Michael Naas 4. Till Human Voices Wake Us and We Drown: The Aporia-fish in the Meno / Thomas Thorp Part III. The Socratic Animal as Truth-Teller and Provocateur 5. We the Bird-Catchers: Receiving the Truth in the Phaedo and the Apology / S. Montgomery Ewegen 6. The Dog on the Fly / H. Peter Steeves Part IV. The Political Animal 7. Taming Horses and Desires: Plato's Politics of Care / Jeremy Bell 8. Who Let the Dogs Out? Tracking the Philosophical Life among the Wolves and Dogs of the Republic / Christopher Long Part V. The (En)gendered Animal 9. The City of Sows and Sexual Differentiation in the Republic / Marina McCoy 10. Animality and Sexual Difference in the Timaeus / Sara Brill Part VI. The Philosophical Animal 11. Animal Sacrifice in Plato's Later Methodology / Holly Moore 12. The Animals That Therefore We Were? Aristophanes's Double-Creatures and the Question of Origins / Drew A. Hyland Part VII. Animals and the Afterlife 13. Animals and Angels: The Myth of Life as a Whole in Republic 10 / Claudia Baracchi 14. Of Beasts and Heroes: The Promiscuity of Humans and Animals in the Myth of Er / Francisco J. Gonzalez List of Contributors Plato's Animals Index Name and Subject Index

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