The Trial of Socrates Revisited

Millett, Paul C.

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“…19 See Anagnostou-Laoutides and Van Anagnostou-Laoutides and Wassenhove (2020) on Seneca's reception of "Platonic inebriation" in his De Tranquilitate Animi. 20 See Millet (2005), 26-27 with Xen. Text and trans.…”

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Drunk with Wisdom: Metaphors of Ecstasy in Plato’s Symposium and Lucian of Samosata

Anagnostou-Laoutides

2021

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Among the metaphors that Plato employed in the context of his apophatic approach to philosophical truth and its experience, inebriation stands out in the Symposium, where famously Socrates is compared to Dionysian figures such as the Silenoi and Marsyas (215a-c), and to frenzied Corybantic dancers (215e; 216d; 218b). The contentious nature of inebriation as a proxy of ecstasy is aptly exemplified in Euripides’ Bacchae, where Pentheus, the distrusting new tyrant of Thebes, is keen to associate the Bacchic trance with common intoxication and lewd behavior; although Plato tries to anticipate such criticisms by repeatedly stating in the Symposium that Socrates is sober and of sound mind (e.g., 214a; 216d; 219d; 220a), later authors are unforgiving of his metaphorical style, which is deemed inconsistent with Plato’s stern disapproval of poetry. Among such later authors, Lucian of Samosata deserves closer attention apropos his treatment of inebriation as a most confusing and inappropriate metaphor for philosophical inspiration. Despite the jocular style of his dialogues, Lucian’s depiction of Platonic inebriation powerfully sketches a deep intellectual crisis that especially afflicts the young people of his time. Thus, Lucian sheds unexpected light on a less prominent chapter of Plato’s reception during the Roman imperial period.

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Drunk with Wisdom: Metaphors of Ecstasy in Plato’s Symposium and Lucian of Samosata

Anagnostou-Laoutides

2021

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“…According to Paul Millet (2005): "Early in 345 BC, the Athenian politician Aeschines prosecuted his fellow-citizen Timarchos on the grounds that, in his youth, he had been a homosexual prostitute and subsequently squandered his inheritance. In reality, the prosecution was motivated not by concern for public morality but by political rivalry" (22).…”

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The Socratic Parrhesiast As A Social Actor: Towards A More Practical Communications Category

Allard¹

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The field of communication has steadily increased the range of concepts and categories at its disposal for describing and analyzing its subject matter. However, in one area it has made little progress in developing an analytical repertoire: that of the actual communicator as a social type. The purpose of this thesis is to help rectify this situation by developing a workable concept of the communicator as parrhesiast. In 399 B.C.E. Socrates was accused of corrupting the youth and not believing in the gods which the city believed in. In this same year, he was found guilty and put to death. With reference to the work of Michel Foucault, this thesis will provide a framework for identifying the parrhesiast using Plato's Socrates as the example.

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Law and Democracy in Classical Athens

Lanni¹

2013

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy

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The Trial of Socrates Revisited

Cited by 10 publications

References 62 publications

Drunk with Wisdom: Metaphors of Ecstasy in Plato’s Symposium and Lucian of Samosata

Drunk with Wisdom: Metaphors of Ecstasy in Plato’s Symposium and Lucian of Samosata

The Socratic Parrhesiast As A Social Actor: Towards A More Practical Communications Category

Law and Democracy in Classical Athens

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