Where did the mirror go? The text of Plato [?] Alcibiades I 133C1-6

Title: Where did the mirror go? The text of Plato [?] Alcibiades I 133C1-6
Creator: Tarrant, Harrant
Relation: Elenchos Vol. 36, Issue 2, p. 361-372
Relation: http://bibliopolis.eu/shop/elenchos-2015-2/
Publisher: Bibliopolis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: At Alcibiades I, 133b-c, the reader expects, but does not according to the MSS find,the return of the mirror-motif that had supposedly explained the true meaning of the Delphic injunction. Hence it remains unclear why anything viewed within the soul should act in any way that resembles a mirror. I argue that the substitution of a single letter in one word, about which the manuscripts and modern scholars in any case disagree, can restore the necessary reference to a reflective surface, though not specifically to a mirror, since the term for a mirror could only be applied to sight. A failure to understand the underlying intertextual allusion to Cratylus 408c had resulted in a safe but unsatisfactory substitution by late antiquity, and other modifications followed thereafter in an effort to give meaning to the text.
Subject: Plato; Alcibiades I; mirror; text; Cratylus
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1315881
Identifier: uon:23017
Identifier: ISSN:0392-7342
Language: eng
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