You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates here.
You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates here.
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“Knowledge is not wisdom.”
—Frank Zappa
Plato’s Lovers is one of his shortest dialogues, but it deals with one of his weightiest topics: the nature of philosophy.
The setting is the school of Dionysus the grammarian. Socrates encounters two attractive young men from good families along with their two older male lovers. None of these characters are named.
The lovers are described as “rival” lovers, but ambiguously so. Was one of them also interested in the other’s lad? Or do they represent rival loves, i.e., rival ways of life? (more…)