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... Socrates and Orpheus To see that the Aminta , like so much else in Renaissance art and letters , is a footnote to Plato , one should come to it by way of the Phaedrus and Poliziano's Orfeo . These are the loci of this chapter : Socratic ...
... Socrates and Orpheus To see that the Aminta , like so much else in Renaissance art and letters , is a footnote to Plato , one should come to it by way of the Phaedrus and Poliziano's Orfeo . These are the loci of this chapter : Socratic ...
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... Socrates ' , while in the Phaedrus he gives us a fuller description of the working of passion in the individual soul'.1 Socrates and his disciple , a ' pattern of Golden Age simplicity ' , retire from Athens to the countryside along the ...
... Socrates ' , while in the Phaedrus he gives us a fuller description of the working of passion in the individual soul'.1 Socrates and his disciple , a ' pattern of Golden Age simplicity ' , retire from Athens to the countryside along the ...
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... Socrates ' earlier assertion that with sportive words ' one who knows the truth may lead his readers on ' ( 262D ) . This is the credo of an esoteric . ' Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things ' ( Matt . 21 : 27 ) . But ...
... Socrates ' earlier assertion that with sportive words ' one who knows the truth may lead his readers on ' ( 262D ) . This is the credo of an esoteric . ' Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things ' ( Matt . 21 : 27 ) . But ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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