Melissa Lane

Academic career

Publications

Books

• Plato’s Progeny: How Socrates and Plato still captivate the modern mind. Duckworth, 2001. Reviewed in
• *Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews,
• *Heythrop Journal,
• *Mind,
• *Times Literary Supplement,
• *Greece and Rome,
• *Philosophy in Review,
• *Phronesis,
• *Prudentia,
• *Review of Politics,
• Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reviewed in
• *Polis
• *Athenaeum
• *Archives de Philosophie,
• *Classical Review,
• *Classical World
• *Ethicsw
• *Greece and Rome
• *Heythrop Journal
• *Journal of the History of Philosophy,
• *Review of Metaphysics
• *Phronesis.
• Greek and Roman Political Ideas .

  Peer-reviewed journal articles

• "The evolution of eironeia in classical Greek texts: why Socratic eironeia is not Socratic irony", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31 49–83.
• "Argument and Agreement in Plato’s Crito", History of Political Thought 19:3 313–330.
• "The utopianism of Hamilton’s state of needs: on rights, deliberation, and the nature of politics", South African Journal of Philosophy 25 207–213.
• "Why History of Ideas At All?", History of European Ideas 28:1–2 33–41.
• "States of Nature, Epistemic and Political", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 1–24.
• "Plato, Popper, Strauss, and Utopianism: Open Secrets?", History of Philosophy Quarterly 16:2 119-42

  Honours

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society