The new Sopranos volume has 17 essays that examine the television show and elucidate concepts from classical philosophers, including Aristotle, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Sun Tzu and Plato.
If you elucidate something, you make it clear and easy to understand. Haig went on to elucidate his personal principle of war There was no need for him to elucidate. = clarify + elucidation elu·ci·da·tion Gerald's attempts at elucidation. to explain something that is difficult to understand by providing more information (elucidatus, past participle of elucidare )
A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject