Humanitas (Aug 2016)

Eschatological narrative in Plato: between logos and myth

  • Francesc Casadesús Bordoy

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 65, no. 1
pp. 71 – 86

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In his dialogues, Plato frequently resorted to alternate and intertwine his dialectic expositions with images and allegories, aiming to illustrate his arguments. This paper analyses in detail his use of the opposition between logos and myth tointroduce his descriptions of Hades

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