Alcibiades's Epiphanic Experience in Plato's Symposium.

In Plato's Symposium , Alcibiades resorts to the imagery of art and describes the Socratic virtues in terms of "divine statues." In this paper, I argue that Plato makes Alcibiades use the poetics of divine salvific and erotic epiphany in order to describe his (quasi) epiphanic experience at the sigh...

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Published in:Illinois Classical Studies Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 1 - 31
Main Author: Petraki, Zacharoula
Format: Article
Published: University of Illinois Press Spring2022
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