Il romanzo greco e il dialogo di Platone

<p>This volume offers a completely new contribution to the interpretation of the Greek novel: analysing the reception of Plato's poetics and narrative practice. The Greek novel is a crossroads of literary genres: The result is sophisticated allusions to texts that mostly served as models. Platonic dialogue also finds a fruitful afterlife in this framework, e.g. for the theory of mimesis, for dramatic structures, for the reflection on eros, which is developed in particular in the <italic>Phaedrus</italic> and the <italic>Symposium</italic>, and for the practice of eikos. The analysis is preceded by a brief look at the results of the ancient exegesis of the Platonic corpus, whereby dialogue emerges as a paradigm of literary production.</p>