Plato by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

Certain words in the text carry footnotes giving their (transliterated) Greek originals, or related words, in italics. Explanations of these are to be found in the Glossary of Greek words. For all names see the Glossary of names.

1 Phalerum was the old harbour of Athens, roughly two miles south-west of the city.

2 The point of the joke is not obvious.

3 The friend is Socrates.

4 There is evidence to suggest that Agathon left Athens between 411 and 405 BC, and Socrates was put to death in 399 BC, so Plato is dating this purported encounter between Apollodorus and his friends to one of the last years of the fifth century BC.

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