TY - JOUR
T1 - The ages of socrates in plato's symposium
AU - Finkelberg, Margalit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/1/28
Y1 - 2021/1/28
N2 - Plato's Symposium has no less than three dramatic dates: Its narrative frame is placed in 401 BCE; Agathon's dinner party is envisaged as having occurred in 416; finally, Plato makes Socrates meet Diotima in 440 BCE. I will argue that the multi-level chronology of the Symposium should be approached along the lines of Socrates' intellectual history as placed against the background of Greek ideas of age classes (also exploited in the Republic). As a result, the Symposium functions as a retrospective of Socrates' life, which uses the traditional concept of ages of man to create a paradigm of philosophical life.
AB - Plato's Symposium has no less than three dramatic dates: Its narrative frame is placed in 401 BCE; Agathon's dinner party is envisaged as having occurred in 416; finally, Plato makes Socrates meet Diotima in 440 BCE. I will argue that the multi-level chronology of the Symposium should be approached along the lines of Socrates' intellectual history as placed against the background of Greek ideas of age classes (also exploited in the Republic). As a result, the Symposium functions as a retrospective of Socrates' life, which uses the traditional concept of ages of man to create a paradigm of philosophical life.
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U2 - 10.14195/2183-4105_21_4
DO - 10.14195/2183-4105_21_4
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AN - SCOPUS:85104342898
SN - 2079-7567
VL - 21
SP - 59
EP - 69
JO - Plato Journal
JF - Plato Journal
ER -