Studies on the reception of Plato and Greek political thought in Victorian Britain / Kyriakos Demetriou.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The history of Ancient Greece. In defence of the British constitution : theoretical implications of the debate over Athenian democracy in Britain, 1770-1850 ; Bishop Connop Thirlwall : historian of ancient Greece ; Victorian classicists and modern Greece : a critical commentary on periodical sources -- Platonic studies. Grote on Socrates : an unpublished essay of the 1820s in its context ; The development of Platonic studies in Britain and the role of utilitarians ; George Grote and the Platonic revival in Victorian Britain ; Socratic dialectic and the exaltation of individuality : J.S. Mill's influence on G. Grote's Platonic interpretation ; The revival of a legend : the debate over Plato in nineteenth-century Britain ; The sophists, democracy, and modern interpretation.