The Secret Doctrine and the Gigantomachia: Interpreting Plato’s Theaetetus-Sophist
The Theaetetus’ ‘secret doctrine’ and the Sophist’s ‘battle between gods and giants’ have long fascinated Plato scholars. I show that the passages systematically parallel one another. Each presents two substantive positions that are advanced on behalf of two separate parties, related to one another...
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Coimbra University Press
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Plato |
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| Online Access: | https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/2113 |