2019
DOI: 10.1017/rmu.2019.14
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PLATO AND ARISTOPHANES ON (WANT OF) EDUCATION: SHAME AND EROS IN THEGORGIASAND IN THECLOUDS

Abstract: Plato's Gorgias might as well have been named On Shame. The word appears sixty-nine times in the course of the dialogue with a lion's share of references to shame being made by Socrates’ character. Callicles comes in second in his use of the term. Cairns notes that in the corpus of the lyric poet Theognis of Megara (sixth century BC) we have ‘the first instance of the noun aischunē.’ Cairns goes on to comment on Theognis’ use of αἰσχύνη and says that ‘[h]ere it appears in the objective sense, but later it will… Show more

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