CLASSIC 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Boeotia, Akademos, Hetaira
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Raphael: the school of athens 1509 1511, vatican museum. Both parents from wealthy and influential athenian families. Two uncles (critias and charmides) were members of the thirty tyrants. Founded a school, the academy (named after the public gymnasium, sacred to the hero academus) Socratic dialogue is its own genre, a species of fiction. Other authors, not extant: antisthenes, aeschines, phaedon. Early or socratic dialogues: socrates questions others, doesn"t have his own position, aporetic: e. g. Middle dialogues: socrates sets out ideas at length: e. g. Later dialogues: socrates is no longer a major character, new systematic presentation of plato"s ideas: e. g laws. Distancing: apollodorus tells the story about the symposium after hearing it from aristodemus, who was present. Dinner party at the house of agathon (tragic poet) Guests: phaedrus, pausanias, eryximachus, aristophanes, socrates, and later: Greek men sitting at dinner fresco from paestum, ca. Erastes (lover) and eromenos (beloved) kissing; attic red figure, ca.
