The seductive voice of the aulos in Plato’s Symposium: from the dismissal of the auletris to Alcibiades’ praise of Socrates-auletes
In the symposium, Plato presents his readers with many different charac- terisations of the aulos and the performers of this instrument. at the very beginning of the drinking-party (symp. 176e7) the aulos-girl is sent away: given that this instru- ment played a very significant role in the sympotic...
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Hollitzer Verlag
2018
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