‘The Twice Seven’: Bacchylides and Plato’s Phaedo
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Aug 30, 2016
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Abstract
In Bacchylides’ Oda 17 the expression ‘the twice seven’ is used to refer to Theseus’ accompanying youths on his journey to Crete. The same expression is used in Plato’s Phaedo to list Socrates’ companions in prison the day of his execution. Based on this occurrence, it is proposed that the Phaedo’s composition takes into account the Bacchylides’ ode. Arguments for this proposal are given and the consequences of this line of interpretation arise.
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Platón, Fedón, Baquílides, Platón y la poesía, lírica griegaPlato, Bacchylides, Phaedo, Plato and poetry, greek lyric
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Flórez Flórez, A. (2016). ‘The Twice Seven’: Bacchylides and Plato’s Phaedo. Universitas Philosophica, 33(67), 53–72. https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.uph33-67.ldvs
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