Drunk with Wisdom: Metaphors of Ecstasy in Plato’s Symposium and Lucian of Samosata
Among the metaphors that Plato employed in the context of his apophatic approach to philosophical truth and its experience, inebriation stands out in the Symposium, where famously Socrates is compared to Dionysian figures such as the Silenoi and Marsyas (215a-c), and to frenzied Corybantic dancers (...
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MDPI
2021
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Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 10 |
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Ecstasy
B inebriation B philosophical conversion B Plato B Metaphor B Lucian of Samosata |
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