32:49 / 334 words
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In August of 1999, I started an eight-week lecture course called “What Socrates Knew: Plato on Art, Wisdom, and Happiness.” (more…)
Plato in Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493
41:33 / 359 words
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In August of 1999, I started an eight-week lecture course called “What Socrates Knew: Plato on Art, Wisdom, and Happiness.” (more…)
Luca della Robbia, “Plato and Aristotle, or Philosophy,” 1437-1439
27:50 / 345 words
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47:43 / 332 words
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Papyrus fragment of Antiphon’s “On Truth,” 3rd century A.D.
1,922 words
Author’s Note:
The following text is a transcript by V. S. of the prefatory remarks on Antiphon the Sophist from the first part of my lecture on Aristophanes’ Clouds. As usual, I have edited this transcript to remove excessive wordiness. The quotes come from the first edition of A Presocratics Reader, ed. Patricia Curd.
Antiphon the Sophist was a younger contemporary of Socrates. He was the author of the treatise On Truth, only fragments of which survive. (more…)
