The Argument of the ActionThis volume brings together Seth Benardetes studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotles Metaphysics. The Argument of the Action spans four decades of Seth Benardetes work, documenting its impressive range. Benardetes philosophic reading of the poets and his poetic reading of the philosophers share a common ground, guided by the key he found in the Platonic dialogue: probing the meaning of speeches embedded in