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Jenny Bryan. Likeness and Likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. viii, 210. $95.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76294-6.
This book is dedicated to the interpretation of the words ... in their appearances in two lines of philosophical verse (Xenophanes B 35: ... and Parmenides B 8.60: ... and in a passage from Plato's Timaeus that characterizes his own cosmological account as an ... Bryan's project may at first appear an excuse for philological overkill, but she presents an inter- esting, ambitious, persuasive, and charmingly written account of the history of these words based on philological parallels ranging widely through the literature of the period. She offers an intertextual reading of the three passages, showing how the word means something different each time, and that on each occasion of its use the author is alluding to one or more predecessors with a view to cor- recting past misuse. Bryan has something for philosophically interested readers too. She carefully explores the word's epistemic force in each...