Complete Works by Plato & John M. Cooper & D. S. Hutchinson

Author:Plato & John M. Cooper & D. S. Hutchinson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Philosophy, Classics, Plato, Ancient Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872203495
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Published: 1997-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

1. Elis was an independent city-state in the northwest Peloponnesus, not far from Olympia. Although geographically close to Sparta, Elis was tilting toward Athens in the contest for leadership between the two.

2. Pittacus ruled in Mytilene for ten years, about 600 B.C., and was famous as a lawgiver; Bias was a statesman of Priene, active in the mid–sixth century B.C.; and Thales is said to have predicted the eclipse of 585 B.C. All three were included in the “Seven Sages.” Anaxagoras (c. 500–c. 428) was a philosopher active in Athens in Socrates’ youth.

3. Daedalus was praised in legend as an inventor of lifelike statues for King Minos of Crete.

4. “Intelligence” (nous) was said to be prominent in Anaxagoras’ philosophy as the source of order for the entire universe.

5. The chief elected magistrates of Athens were called archons. Solon was a lawgiver, political reformer, and poet (c. 640/635 to soon after 561/560 B.C.).

6. Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, is the type of the young hero; Nestor, the oldest of the Greeks in the expedition against Troy, is a proverbial wise old man.

7. Eudicus was probably Hippias’ host in Athens (Lesser Hippias 363b). Nothing is known about Phidostratus.

8. Reading allōi at a4; Heraclitus B82 Diels-Kranz.

9. Phidias (b. ca. 490 B.C.), an Athenian sculptor, was best known as designer of the Parthenon sculptures. The statue of Athena mentioned in Socrates’ next speech was fashioned of ivory and gold for the Parthenon.

10. A dithyramb is a sort of choral ode heavily embellished with music.

11. Achilles’ mother, Thetis, was a goddess. His grandfather, Aeacus, was a son of Zeus. Heracles, Tantalus, Dardanus, and Zethus (below) were all said to be sons of Zeus. Pelops, son of Tantalus, was of human parentage.

12. Alternatively, “power.”

13. Sophroniscus’ son is Socrates himself.

14. By “inexpressible number” is probably meant an irrational surd (square root of a non-square number). If so, the claim is false. The sum of two such numbers is irrational.

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