Vol. 46 No. 1 (2020): XLVI - 2020
Articoli

The Glaucon of Plato’s Symposium

Published 2020-07-03

Keywords

  • Plato,
  • Symposium,
  • Republic,
  • People in Plato,
  • Glosses

Abstract

Prosopographical scrutiny suggests that ‘Glaucon’ at Symp. 172c is the name of neither Plato’s brother nor his great-uncle, but may rather represent a reader’s guess at the identity of an anonymous interlocutor; it will be an intrusive gloss on an impatient, comedic address by the narrator Apollodorus.