The City and the Stage: Performance, Genre, and Gender in Plato’s Laws by Marcus Folch (review)

While investigating Plato’s program of laws (nomoi), Folch also provides a nuanced interpretation of Plato’s attitude towards contemporary Athenian performance culture (and its musical nomoi): for Folch, Plato’s critique is not so much a straightforward rejection of Athenian theatrocracy as a revisi...

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