Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (Nov 2010)

Intra-Socratic Polemics: The <i>Symposia</i> of Plato and Xenophon

  • Gabriel Danzig

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 45, no. 4
pp. 331 – 357

Abstract

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Textual relationships between the two Symposia suggest that Xenophon wrote first, prompting Plato to write Socrates' critique of Phaedrus, to which Xenophon responded by appending his ch. 8.