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Socrates Plays Stesichorus
No full textI examine a number of overlooked linguistic, philological, performative and even metrical factors, and I conclude that the first half of the Phaedrus is, among other things, a consistent re-enacting of Stesichorus’ Helen poem in performance. Plato builds on the traditional opposition between Stesichorus and Homer, and thus conceptualizes philosophy as a topical or flexible discourse to be set against the notion of fixed and crystallized discourse as exemplified by epic rhapsodies
M. Folch, The City and the Stage. Performance, Genre and Gender in Plato’s Laws, Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2015, xiii, 386 pp. Pr. £ 47.99 (hb). ISBN: 9780190266172
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