Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (Sep 2013)

Plato’s <i>Charmides</i> as a Political Act: Apologetics and the Promotion of Ideology

  • Gabriel Danzig

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 53, no. 3
pp. 486 – 519

Abstract

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By showing that Critias and Socrates understood the same matters differently, Plato was able to treat seriously ideas that came to be associated with the Thirty and with Socrates while shielding himself from criticism.