Paradoksalūs Platono Puotos personažai
Paradoxical Characters in Plato’s Symposium
Author(s): Vytautas AlišauskasSubject(s): Epistemology, Ancient Philosphy, Philosophy of Language, Rhetoric
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: prologues of Plato’s dialogues; Symposium; Republic; Glaucon; Apollodorus; Antisthenes;
Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the identity of Glaucon as portrayed in Plato’s Symposium and the portrayal of Apollodorus in the dialogue. The author argues that Glaucon is to be considered in the Symposium the same person as the Glaucon portrayed in The Republic (Plato’s brother). This argument is based on the intertexutal link to Rep.V 474d–476d. Apollodorus, the main narrator of the Symposium, is depicted as a follower of the proto-cynic Antisthenes. It is suggested that Apolodorus’s character is written as a literary substitute for Antisthenes.
Journal: Literatūra
- Issue Year: 60/2018
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 27-34
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Lithuanian