- Title
- Storytelling and authority: critical poetics in Plato's Symposium
- Creator
- Johnson, Marguerite; Benitez, Rick
- Relation
- Reflections on Plato's Poetics Essays from Beijing p. 171-190
- Publisher
- Academic Printing and Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Our attention in this paper is focused on two fables in Plato's Symposium: the first is told by the comic poet Aristophanes (182cl 92e), and the second is reported by Socrates as having been told to him previously by Diotima, a priestess of Mantinaea (202e-204c). We locate these stories within a general practice that is perspicuous in the Symposium: the use of poetry, myth, legend and other literary or cultural allusions to lend an air of authority to one's point of view.
- Subject
- Aristophanes; Socrates; literary allusions; interpretation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1329586
- Identifier
- uon:26200
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780994541802
- Language
- eng
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