Two very differing... «Plato: A Very Short Introduction»
innashpitzberg15 июля 2013Two very differing interpretations are nearly contemporary with Plato himself. His nephew Speusippus, who succeeded him as head of his philosophical school, held that Plato's real father was not Ariston but the god Apollo. A whole corresponding tradition grew up: Plato was born on Apollo's birthday; bees came and sat on his infant lips; his teacher Socrates dreamed of a swan, Apollo's bird, just before meeting Plato. Thinking of Plato as semi-divine, alien to us, is not so startling in a world in which great families claimed descent from the gods.
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