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31 The Date of Plato's Symposium HAROLD B. MATTINGLY II:A1VIOWITZ long ago tried to rescue Plato from the charge of anachronism in Symposium i93A. Aristophanes was there re- ferring to Spartan action in Arcadia in 4I 8 B.C., not to the of Mantinea in 3 8 S B. C.1 His views has made some impression, but scholars still tend to feel that the passage must have been written with the event of 3 8 j B. C, still fresh in Plato's mind. It would thus date the dialogue as firmly as the supposed anachronism.2 Now I believe that Wilamowitz was right in categorically denying the anachronism, but logically he might have gone further. If, as he claimed, the passage was exactly applicable to 4i 8 B.C., it could have been written equally well before 3 8 S B. C. as after. This is what I hope to show in the present paper, and I shall therefore start with the word that has caused all the trouble. This is all the more necessary since Wilamowitz' treatment of it has not proved convincing. Aristophanes, spinning his impudent fantasy of the sexes, says that god has split men apart for their
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Published: Jan 1, 1958
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