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Plato Pindaricus Pindarosi allúzió Platón Phaidrosában?
Allusion in Plato's Phaedrus to Pindar's Pythian 1

Author(s): Zsolt Adorjáni
Subject(s): Cultural history, Ancient World
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Typho; Apollo; etymology; simple; manyfold; musical metaphor; dithyramb; New Music

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I argue for a fully intended and carefully tailored allusion in Plato's Phaedrus to Pindar's Pythian 1 with the pivotal image of Typho. The analysis of verbal and conceptual links leads to a better appreciation of the nuances in the Platonic passage, including a hitherto utterly unexplored layer of the text, its musical metaphoricity. On this level, several main themes of Platon's thought, such as the problem of singleness vs. manyness, musical ethos, and criticism converge in an extraordinarily dense expression.

  • Issue Year: 63/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 189-199
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Hungarian
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