Plato's Saving Mūthos: The Language of Salvation in the Republic.

This article discusses the Homeric background of the Republic with the aim of elucidating Plato's critique of Homeric nostos. It argues that the Republic unfolds as a nostos voyage, with Socrates striving to steer the soul home. Even though Segal has already argued for seeing the Republic as an Odys...

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Publicado en:International Journal of the Platonic Tradition Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 3 - 33
Autor principal: Adluri, Vishwa
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2014
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