Title: "A crowd of Gorgons and winged horses" : a critique of Socratic philosophers in Athenaeus' The Deipnosophists
Source document: Pro-Fil. 2023, vol. 24, iss. 1, pp. 34-46
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34-46
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ISSN1212-9097 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/pf23-1-33931
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.79833
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License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
The study analyses the critique of the Socratic philosophers in Athenaeus' The Deipnosophists. The main goal of the study is to assess its overall quality, argumentative structure, historical relevance and interpretative plausibility. The first part of the study briefly outlines the main characteristics and features of the anti-philosophical literature in antiquity. The second part examines Athenaeus' argumentative methods and techniques of textual criticism. In the following parts of the study, we scrutinise Athenaeus's overall critical assessment of Socratic literature and compare it with extant philosophical, biographical and doxographical evidence. In conclusion, we answer the question of to what extent is Athenaeus' critique relevant and substantiated by available textual evidence.
Note
The paper was supported by grant VEGA č. 1/0020/21 Vývoj pojmu hanby v antickej a súčasnej morálnej filozofii s dôrazom na jej etické funkcie [Development of the concept of shame in ancient and contemporary moral philosophy with emphasis on its ethical functions].
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