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Socratic Magic: Enchantment, Irony, and Persuasion in Plato's Dialogues

Michelle Gellrich

The Classical World. (Mar. - Apr., 1994) pp. 275-307

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[1765 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[1292 words] socrates, plato, protagoras, knowledge, dialogue, justice, meno, gorgias, socratic, virtue, true, apology, euthyphro, himself, republic, thrasymachus, wisdom, things, callicles, truth, dialogues, sophists, crito, definition, vlastos, claim, irony, laws, xenophon, hippias

[454 words] eros, love, beauty, lover, symposium, beautiful, phaedrus, plato, socrates, alcibiades, erotic, beloved, aphrodite, desire, lysis, diotima, agathon, speech, loved, sokrates, homosexual, dover, homosexuality, lovers, pederasty, eryximachus, sexual, loving, friendship, loves

[378 words] dead, magic, burial, funeral, body, rites, magical, belief, divination, ritual, custom, tomb, buried, omen, corpse, power, omens, frazer, superstition, rite, cremation, bones, spirits, gods, practices, religious, deceased, lupercalia, funerary, romans

[349 words] plato, republic, dialogues, socrates, platonic, laws, phaedo, dialogue, timaeus, ideas, phaedrus, parmenides, sophist, aristotle, taylor, philosophy, philebus, philosophical, theaetetus, cratylus, platon, cornford, burnet, doctrine, gorgias, dialectic, critias, method, symposium, passage

[192 words] speech, words, himself, speaker, audience, lines, situation, scene, action, address, makes, line, speak, asks, addressed, response, begins, take, effect, immediately, reply, comes, your, speaking, speaks, moment, advice, beginning, passage, questions

[174 words] mind, power, true, sense, moral, truth, knowledge, things, idea, ideal, experience, himself, divine, spirit, individual, ideas, natural, conception, expression, reality, real, feeling, vision, attitude, toward, every, intellectual, beauty, something, action

[146 words] soul, body, plotinus, plato, matter, intellect, souls, timaeus, universe, evil, divine, doctrine, things, intelligible, principle, bodies, cosmos, power, proclus, demiurge, cause, passage, forms, platonic, nous, sense, idea, rational, myth, immortal

[143 words] berkeley, trans, essays, leiden, commentary, los_angeles, ithaca, mass, baltimore, early, politics, ancient_greece, myth, tapa, tradition, clarendon_press, amsterdam, introduction, vols, phoenix, greece, diss, ann_arbor, stuttgart, origins, reading, arethusa, review, routledge, rhetoric

[127 words] demosthenes, speech, speeches, isocrates, rhetoric, lysias, aeschines, rhetorical, gorgias, speaker, oration, orator, oratory, orators, antiphon, delivered, athens, aristotle, forensic, audience, written, palamedes, sophists, political, isokrates, helen, athenian, orations, blass, assembly

[108 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques

[108 words] your, something, take, things, thing, enough, done, really, anything, himself, look, mind, mean, away, going, want, keep, matter, sort, every, kind, doing, else, tell, suppose, having, ever, words, help, understand

[101 words] love, himself, fear, anger, passion, moral, violence, suicide, punishment, desire, woman, herself, contrast, suffering, makes, victim, gods, evil, power, pity, shame, fate, situation, grief, cause, violent, behavior, becomes, theme, madness

[94 words] aristotle, tragedy, poetics, tragic, poetry, plot, pity, comedy, drama, action, poet, imitation, fear, characters, emotions, mimesis, catharsis, dramatic, definition, moral, aristotelian, audience, else, chapter, bywater, pleasure, hamartia, pathos, play, poets

[89 words] eyes, thou, your, night, earth, away, heart, thee, blood, forth, love, simile, sleep, beauty, tears, mind, poet, lines, heaven, hands, comes, words, gods, song, water, face, sound, passage, dark, sweet

[81 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[72 words] himself, young, ever, whom, every, your, days, things, mind, wrote, spirit, enough, something, true, famous, friend, words, youth, country, poet, knew, high, become, love, take, poor, name, story, master, living

[68 words] language, words, effect, literary, poet, expression, tone, contrast, speech, passages, reader, manner, poetry, himself, rhetorical, passage, dramatic, prose, poetic, uses, technique, lines, characteristic, theme, writing, treatment, makes, serious, kind, familiar

[57 words] disease, medical, plague, medicine, doctor, physician, patient, diseases, symptoms, health, celsus, cure, doctors, illness, epidemic, thucydides, cause, fever, body, treatment, asclepius, sick, healing, patients, physicians, smallpox, regimen, drugs, typhus, hippocratic

[55 words] himself, true, truth, matter, criticism, merely, facts, really, real, passage, attempt, false, claim, accept, words, knowledge, belief, enough, regard, prove, makes, error, simply, wrong, statements, critics, surely, actually, serious, take

[53 words] cult, goddess, dionysus, religion, religious, gods, worship, cults, deity, ritual, sacred, deities, isis, divine, demeter, pentheus, mysteries, rites, dionysiac, divinity, dionysos, cybele, attis, aphrodite, nilsson, artemis, divinities, worshipped, initiation, mother

[48 words] dead, orpheus, hades, underworld, admetus, alcestis, heracles, dreams, souls, dream, eurydice, sleep, tartarus, elysium, living, charon, earth, insomnia, protesilaus, lament, persephone, journey, orphic, afterlife, pheres, apollo, cerberus, thanatos, gates, pluto

[39 words] philosophy, literary, works, influence, philosophical, writers, tradition, greeks, intellectual, knowledge, ideas, writings, education, philosophers, poets, political, early, plato, period, wrote, written, romans, authors, writing, historians, attitude, moral, philosopher, poetry, himself

[35 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[34 words] word, meaning, sense, words, term, uses, phrase, passage, mean, context, passages, usage, applied, verb, expression, refer, language, refers, meanings, adjective, idea, meant, equivalent, elsewhere, describe, latin, technical, epithet, definition, simply

[32 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[30 words] himself, friends, political, personal, public, friend, whom, friendship, attitude, position, reputation, conduct, having, towards, toward, enemies, praise, private, cause, return, influence, claim, speech, charges, power, true, actions, themselves, felt, career

[28 words] source, text, sources, passage, information, works, passages, written, version, fragments, name, authors, quoted, tradition, literary, mention, fragment, extant, books, himself, wrote, early, writers, title, commentary, quotations, texts, derived, knowledge, collection

[27 words] political, power, democracy, city, politics, citizens, rule, government, democratic, polis, laws, constitution, community, republic, aristocratic, empire, individual, freedom, ideal, aristocracy, citizen, economic, wealth, control, monarchy, tyranny, oligarchy, states, athens, institutions

[26 words] women, female, male, woman, gender, feminine, masculine, sexual, males, amazons, females, feminist, masculinity, inlaw, sexuality, skinner, desire, gendered, slides, thesmophoria, bottiger, feminism, oikos, mcclure, cross-dressing, richlin, irigaray, greene, kinsman, men_and_women

[25 words] latin, english, language, teacher, student, reading, teachers, teaching, pupils, words, vocabulary, knowledge, pupil, translation, method, classics, grammar, schools, training, learning, taught, education, teach, learn, value, instruction, every, high_school, languages, ability

[23 words] dance, music, song, dancing, chorus, lyre, musical, performance, songs, singing, dances, choral, sing, dancers, dithyramb, aulos, sung, performed, instrument, flute, dancer, muses, solo, voice, lawler, opera, choruses, hymn, dithyrambic, lillian

[21 words] women, marriage, children, woman, wife, family, child, slave, mother, husband, slaves, daughter, married, father, male, female, her_husband, parents, his_wife, status, wives, household, young, girl, bride, marry, birth, sons, girls, sexual

[19 words] magical, magic, curse, tablet, faraone, spell, spells, erotic, tablets, curses, jordan, papyri, defixiones, amulet, texts, pgm2, simaetha, axoa, incantation, amulets, audollent, tabellae, papyrus, repraesentatio, aion, binding, lead, performative, sophron, victim

[17 words] medea, helen, jason, philoctetes, neoptolemus, apollonius, euripides, menelaus, argonauts, valerius, odysseus, argonautica, play, children, troy, argo, story, theseus, neoptolemos, aegeus, andromache, scene, epic, walcott, episode, herself, hermione, ariadne, fleece, pelias

[15 words] sacrifice, ritual, sacrifices, sacrificial, festival, rites, religious, altar, rite, procession, gods, cult, sacred, ceremony, rituals, offering, victim, offered, sacrificed, performed, blood, offerings, victims, festivals, purification, animal, burkert, priest, human_sacrifice, bull

[14 words] studien, akademie, heidelberg, wissenschaften, sprache, stuttgart, uber, untersuchungen, grammatik, griechen, beitrage, bonn, alten, vols, neue, muller, forschungen, festschrift, handbuch, altertumswissenschaft, klassischen, diss, wien, burckhardt, literatur, lateinischen, lateinische, wilhelm, otto, philologie

[14 words] empedocles, parmenides, heraclitus, aristotle, anaxagoras, diels, things, anaximander, theophrastus, democritus, fragment, earth, fragments, xenophanes, simplicius, kirk, fire, opposites, strife, doctrine, guthrie, aetius, zeno, frag, presocratic, water, philosophy, cosmogony, cosmic, melissus

[12 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

[11 words] aristotle, things, forms, plato, thing, sense, knowledge, objects, perception, something, object, matter, substance, sensible, distinction, true, senses, kind, mind, passage, equal, particulars, socrates, individual, definition, exist, unity, parmenides, species, thinking

[11 words] homer, homeric, iliad, odyssey, epic, poet, poems, oral, poetry, tradition, parry, poets, poem, similes, traditional, composition, hesiod, formulaic, formula, heroic, poetic, lord, epics, simile, language, oral_poetry, singer, verse, narrative, formulas

[11 words] statue, statues, marble, athena, athens, relief, bronze, parthenon, reliefs, base, sculptures, frieze, archaic, olympia, richter, sculptor, pediment, statuette, sculptors, fifth_century, apollo, attic, works, aphrodite, hellenistic, fourth_century, nike, hermes, torso, ridgway

[11 words] heracles, herakles, lion, hero, theseus, perseus, serpent, bull, deianeira, snake, centaur, hercules, boar, gorgon, medusa, snakes, centaurs, monster, deianira, shield, andromeda, giant, hydra, myth, amphitryon, hyllus, club, eurystheus, lions, geryon

[11 words] apollo, cult, zeus, temple, athena, pausanias, delphi, sanctuary, athens, oracle, artemis, shrine, sacred, altar, demeter, poseidon, goddess, festival, paus, name, dedicated, statue, athenian, hero, aphrodite, delos, cults, inscription, dedication, city

[11 words] pindar, poet, victory, poem, praise, pythian, victor, odes, pyth, bacchylides, song, pindaric, olympian, myth, hieron, epinician, nemean, simonides, poetry, lines, paean, passage, farnell, cyrene, bundy, apollo, wilamowitz, bowra, aegina, victories

[10 words] story, myth, ovid, apollo, stories, myths, version, tale, legend, metamorphoses, narrative, mythological, episode, tradition, phaethon, metamorphosis, versions, rape, daedalus, daughter, told, mythical, birth, theseus, aphrodite, pelops, hymn, zeus, tales, name

[10 words] greeks, greece, peoples, cities, early, land, strabo, egypt, asia_minor, name, island, city, eastern, region, italy, islands, country, native, inhabitants, geographical, western, tribes, coast, tradition, northern, mediterranean, asia, civilization, romans, population

[9 words] scene, seated, relief, scenes, woman, holding, standing, shield, behind, holds, vase, stands, front, hands, female, representations, representation, spear, youth, wears, composition, male, painting, warrior, wearing, altar, reliefs, goddess, dionysos, frieze

[9 words] story, king, himself, told, tale, night, city, sent, house, killed, away, having, whom, father, took, home, stories, wife, his_father, version, woman, child, return, dream, his_wife, dead, gave, children, mother, hands

[9 words] passage, sense, text, meaning, sentence, words, word, reading, phrase, line, mean, translation, clause, context, lines, follows, editors, refer, difficulty, verb, makes, emendation, take, refers, preceding, expression, passages, correct, understood, translates

[7 words] land, grain, wheat, farm, price, farmer, agricultural, agriculture, prices, barley, crops, farmers, estate, estates, corn, farming, columella, harvest, labor, fields, soil, labour, cato, drachmas, obols, crop, varro, cultivation, wine, slaves

[7 words] collection, information, athens, done, knowledge, received, collections, objects, carried, completed, valuable, investigation, progress, devoted, country, task, service, hope, greece, visit, sent, every, volume, gave, soon, museums, value, german, full, future

[6 words] manuscript, manuscripts, petrarch, written, latin, poggio, mediaeval, works, codex, politian, books, boccaccio, letter, edition, printed, translation, italian, commentary, sabbadini, florence, text, alcuin, tours, bede, contains, erasmus, renaissance, twelfth, vincent, medieval

[5 words] virgil, vergil, theocritus, eclogue, poem, pastoral, poet, georgics, eclogues, song, daphnis, gallus, poetry, idyll, bucolic, lines, tityrus, corydon, menalcas, lycidas, silenus, aristaeus, meliboeus, polyphemus, shepherd, poems, servius, galatea, damoetas, golden_age

[5 words] horace, odes, poem, poet, maecenas, carm, poetry, stanza, poems, horatian, lyric, fraenkel, augustus, nisbet, lines, stanzas, epode, hubbard, poetic, epistles, horaz, alcaeus, epodes, line, commager, carmen, plancus, bacchus, theme, epist

[5 words] animals, animal, birds, fish, bird, dogs, sheep, species, eagle, hunting, fable, goat, lion, wild, beasts, goats, pliny, wolf, cattle, swallow, creatures, hunt, deer, bones, lions, cock, young, aristotle, nightingale, simile