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71 The shape of the Earth in the Phaedo: a rejoinder THOMAS G. ROSENMEYER n Phronesis 3 (i9s8) 121 i ff. Mr. W. M. Calder III has an attack on I my note on the shape of the earth in Plato's Phaedo, C . Q 6(i9s6) 193-7. His objections have failed to convince me. To save space, I should like merely to annotate those of his remarks which I consider particularly unjustified. P. 1 2 2 : A check, not of LSJ but of the appropriate special concordances and lexicons, will show that is indeed an ambiguous term, not only in other authors but especially in Plato. Example: Epistle 7 . 342 B Plato defines the azp6yyuXov and 1tZPL<pEpÉÇ and xuxaoS as that whose radius is always the same. A comparison with Parm. 1 3 7 E shows that he is thinking of "round" in general, comprising both the circular and the spherical. In other words, in Plato's thinking planimetry and stereometry are not always clearly distinct. As for Symp. 1908, in spite of the comparison with sun, earth and moon, it is not clear to me how an "unambiguously globular hermaphrodite," " when cut in half, can
Phronesis – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1959
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