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The Seventh and Eighth Platonic Epistles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

L. A. Post
L. A. Post
Affiliation:
Haverford college, Haverford, Pa., U.S.A.
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The recent paper of J. Harward (Classical Quarterly, XXII., pp. 143–154) on the seventh and eighth Platonic Epistles deserves an answer. He suggests that Plato's statement at the beginning of the seventh Epistle, that he had received a communication from the friends of Dion, is a literary fiction. Supposing then that this suggestion is correct, he maintains the view that Plato, having no knowledge of the death of Dion's son before his father's assassination in 354 B.C., refers to him as Hipparinus without qualification in the seventh Epistle (324a), and as Dion's son, giving no name, in the eighth Epistle (355e).

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 1930 , pp. 113 - 115
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1930

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