Socrate o dello specchio. Strategie di scrittura nell’Apologia e nell’Alcibiade

Through a mention to the Middle Platonists and a reference to a late antique text that presents a comparison between Plato and the Demiurge, I set out to show just one of those rhetorical strategies that have been used by the author Plato to give his writings the unity and consistency that make the...

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Main Author: Lidia Palumbo
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Language:English
Published: Coimbra University Press 2020-08-01
Series:Plato
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Online Access:https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/8659
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description Through a mention to the Middle Platonists and a reference to a late antique text that presents a comparison between Plato and the Demiurge, I set out to show just one of those rhetorical strategies that have been used by the author Plato to give his writings the unity and consistency that make the corpus a kosmos, a living animal, like the universe. After having identified among the rhetorical strategies the one that uses examples and explained what such a strategy means, I analyse the Platonic use of the example of the mirror identified with Socrates in two writings, the Apology of Socrates and the Alcibiades I.
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Socrate o dello specchio. Strategie di scrittura nell’Apologia e nell’Alcibiade
Plato
Dialogue
Kosmos
Corpus
Rhetorical Strategies
Example
Mirror
title Socrate o dello specchio. Strategie di scrittura nell’Apologia e nell’Alcibiade
title_full Socrate o dello specchio. Strategie di scrittura nell’Apologia e nell’Alcibiade
title_fullStr Socrate o dello specchio. Strategie di scrittura nell’Apologia e nell’Alcibiade
title_full_unstemmed Socrate o dello specchio. Strategie di scrittura nell’Apologia e nell’Alcibiade
title_short Socrate o dello specchio. Strategie di scrittura nell’Apologia e nell’Alcibiade
title_sort socrate o dello specchio strategie di scrittura nell apologia e nell alcibiade
topic Dialogue
Kosmos
Corpus
Rhetorical Strategies
Example
Mirror
url https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/8659
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