In this chapter I shall try to sketch what is in my view Aristophanes’ main contribution to the history of Socratism.1 Aristophanes, I shall argue, provided Socrates with a (literally) “iconic” status that proved a major influence for Socratic writers and for Plato in particular, to the extent that it would be hard to imagine Plato’s Socrates in the absence ...
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