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Isocrates' Reaction To the Phaedrus

Isocrates' Reaction To the Phaedrus ISOCRATES' REACTION TO THE PHAEDRUS BY G. J. DE VRIES Some years ago I have argued 1) that the praise of Isocrates in the. Phaedrus was meant as a satire. Recently, in the notes to his excellent translation of the Phaedrus, Professor Hackforth has taken the eulogy seriously, which leads me to revert, with a few words, to some parts of my exposition, which was written in Dutch, and consequently inaccessible to Professor H. In what follows two things are aimed at: (1) a short discussion of Professor H.'s opinion; (2) an attempt to deduce the character of the supposed eulogy from Isocrates' reaction to the Phaedrus. (1) Professor H. thinks that the eulogy is an amende honorable for the passage in Plato, Rep. 500 b (TOUS CPLÀ?1te:le'Yj¡.L6vooç by which Is. felt grieved. The compliment at the end of the Phaedrus is "a generous recognition of Isocrates' merits, though implying no retractation of Plato's criticisms" (Plato's Phaedrus, p. 143, cp. p. 168).. That Is. was far from being a specimen of "the toadying orator of the Gorgias" may be seen from many of his orations, e.g. from the letter to Nicocles, "in which he contrasts himself as the serious http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Isocrates' Reaction To the Phaedrus

De Vries, G.J.
Mnemosyne , Volume 6 (1): 7 – Jan 1, 1953
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ISOCRATES' REACTION TO THE PHAEDRUS BY G. J. DE VRIES Some years ago I have argued 1) that the praise of Isocrates in the. Phaedrus was meant as a satire. Recently, in the notes to his excellent translation of the Phaedrus, Professor Hackforth has taken the eulogy seriously, which leads me to revert, with a few words, to some parts of my exposition, which was written in Dutch, and consequently inaccessible to Professor H. In what follows two things are aimed at: (1) a short discussion of Professor H.'s opinion; (2) an attempt to deduce the character of the supposed eulogy from Isocrates' reaction to the Phaedrus. (1) Professor H. thinks that the eulogy is an amende honorable for the passage in Plato, Rep. 500 b (TOUS CPLÀ?1te:le'Yj¡.L6vooç by which Is. felt grieved. The compliment at the end of the Phaedrus is "a generous recognition of Isocrates' merits, though implying no retractation of Plato's criticisms" (Plato's Phaedrus, p. 143, cp. p. 168).. That Is. was far from being a specimen of "the toadying orator of the Gorgias" may be seen from many of his orations, e.g. from the letter to Nicocles, "in which he contrasts himself as the serious

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Published: Jan 1, 1953

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