The symposium: a neglected source for Plato's ideas on rhetoric
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[1] University of Houston
University of Houston
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 37, nº 3, 1971, págs. 219-232
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
An analysis of the Symposium is one way to supplement the knowledge of Plato's rhetoric obtained from the more familiar Phaedrus and Gorgias. The present investigation provides support for the following conclusions: (1) Plato confirms the insistence on truth to be found in the Phaedrus. (2) The clearcut ideas on the proper arrangement and content of the speech of praise cover rhetorical matters that are not taken up in the Phaedrus or the Gorgias and that are consistent with the ideas that Aristotle recorded later. (3) In certain other aspects of invention Plato also is consistent with the theories and the practices of Aristotle and other Greeks of the fourth century. (4) Finally and most importantly, the Socrates‐Diotima presentation is the best available example of Plato's ideal speech.
