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Classica Cracoviensia, 2022 Explored through a pedagogical lens, Plato’s Theuth and Thamus anecdote reveals an educational intervention designed to examine and apply the teachings of Socrates through a ‘real-world’ philosophical conundrum: how to wisely contend with the ...
Estelle Clements
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A complementary observation to determine Phaedrus’ age in Plato’s Phaedrus
Ágora, 2021 This paper deals with the problem of determining Phaedrus’ age in the eponymous dialogue. The vocatives ὦ νεανία and ὦ παῖ, in Pl. Phdr. 257c8 and 267c6, could suggest that Plato depicts him as a teenager. However, most scholars believe that Phaedrus is
Jonathan Lavilla de Lera
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The Price of Progress. To the Question of the Benefits of Writing [PDF]
Антиномии, 2023 The article analyzes an episode of the Plato’s dialogue Phaedrus about the harm of writing to human cognitive abilities. Relying on a number of ancient sources, the author shows that the Greeks of the classical and earlier periods gave priority to the ...
Oleg А. Matveychev
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Cicero’s contacts in Athens [PDF]
Časopis Ksio, 2022 The focus of this article is Cicero’s contacts in Athens. Marcus Tullius Cicero studied in Athens for six months in his mid-twenties and visited the city several times more. In his letters, speeches, and treaties, he mentions several important Athenians.
Aleksandar Simić
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O Banquete de Platão e a gênese da noção de tradição
O Que Nos Faz Pensar, 2022 What is presented here as an article corresponds to a chapter of my doctoral thesis entitled “Metaphysics as Onto-theo-logy: an interpretation of Plato’s philosophy in the light of Martin Heidegger’s thought”.
Elsa Buadas
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 This article presents a contextualisation of Belgian philosopher and historian of psychiatry and sexuality, Patrick Vandermeersch’s (1946–), unpublished analysis of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s (1926–1984) interpretation of Methodius of Olympus’ (
Johann Beukes
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Echoes from Plato’s Phaedrus in Aristides’ Smyrna Corpus
Lexis, 2022 This paper is concerned with allusions to Plato’s Phaedrus in Aelius Aristides’ first and last orations dedicated to Smyrna before and after the destructive earthquake of 177-178 CE (Orr. 17 and 21 Keil).
Malamou, Myrto-Maria
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Les couacs de Phèdre : quand les grenouilles coassent
Aitia, 2021 All translation tends towards an appropriation of the translated text by the target language. This is the starting postulate of this paper which tries to identify the Latinization of the Aesopic fable in the translation given by Phaedrus (I, 2), in ...
Sara Cusset
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Media Theory, 2022 In certain corners of media theory, the fanciful origin myth of writing furnished in Plato’s Phaedrus, one of his most enigmatic and intricate dialogues, has in turn come to serve as the origin myth for media critique itself.
Thomas Sutherland
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Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2023 : I argue that the opening line of the Phaedrus proleptically encapsulates the major themes of the dialogue and that paying attention to the opening line enables us to strengthen the identification of psychagogy as the key unifying thread of the whole ...
Pedro Mauricio Garcia Dotto
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