title: Two Concepts of the Soul in Plato's Phaedo: A Beginner's Guide to the Phaedo and Some Related Platonic Texts on the Immortality of the Soul
author:  Ryan Topping 
description: <b>Ryan Topping</b> is a postgraduate student in Theology at the University of Oxford, where he is preparing a dissertation on St. Augustine's ethical thought.
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  Greek and Roman Musical Studies 8 (2020) 111-155
  ‘Tuning the Lyre, Tuning the Soul’
  Harmonia, Justice and the Kosmos of the Soul in Plato’s Republic and 
  Timaeus
  Tosca A.C. Lynch
  Jesus College, University of Oxford, Turl Street, Oxford, OX1 3DW
  tosca.lynch@jesus.ox.ac.uk
  Abstract
  This paper will focus on Plato’s thought-provoking depiction of justice as special kind 
  of harmonia (Resp. 4.443c-444a) that epitomises the best possible organisation of the 
  soul, exploring his nuanced use of the model of lyre tunings in performative, theoreti-
  cal as well as educational terms. By comparing Plato’s use of harmonic imagery with 
  technical discussions of lyre tunings and their key role in educational settings, I will 
  show how Plato exploited distinctive features of traditional Greek lyre harmoniai to 
  give shape to his innovative understanding of the structure of the soul and the harmo-
  nious, but not strifele