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Imagery in Plato's Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Dorothy Tarrant
Dorothy Tarrant
Affiliation:
Bedford College, London
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Extract

Of all the dialogues that may be said to be in Plato's normal style, the Republic seems to be the richest in imagery. The Phaedrus may contain more of such figurative language, but its whole atmosphere and style are so artificial as to place it outside comparison. The Republic stands, in this respect as in philosophic content, between the relative plainness of the earlier works and the didactic heaviness of the Laws, which is relieved by proverbial, rather than by imaginative, illustration.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 40 , Issue 1-2 , January 1946 , pp. 27 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1946

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