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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lynch, T
Other Authors: Baldassarre, A
Format: Book section
Published: Hollitzer Verlag 2018