Drunk with Wisdom: Metaphors of Ecstasy in Plato’s <i>Symposium</i> and Lucian of Samosata
Among the metaphors that Plato employed in the context of his apophatic approach to philosophical truth and its experience, inebriation stands out in the <i>Symposium</i>, where famously Socrates is compared to Dionysian figures such as the Silenoi and Marsyas (215a-c), and to frenzied C...
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MDPI AG
2021-10-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/10/898 |