Thursday, September 16, 2021
Socrates the Veteran
Dear Mike,
Emily Thomas, The Meaning of Travel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), p. 2:
See S. Sara Monoson, "Socrates' Military Service," in Victor Caston and Silke-Maria Weineck, edd., Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), pp. 96-117.
The most famous literary representation of Socrates outside the city walls of Athens is Plato's Phaedrus.
Best wishes,
Eric [Thomson]
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Emily Thomas, The Meaning of Travel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), p. 2:
There's a myth that philosophers don't travel. It is fuelled by Socrates, who never set foot outside the city walls of Athens...If the first statement is a myth, so too is the second. Socrates participated as an Athenian hoplite in three military campaigns: the extended siege of Potidaea in northern Greece (432-429 BC), the Athenian attack on Delium in Boeotia a few years later (424 BC), and the expedition to defend the Athenian colony Amphipolis in Thrace (422 BC).
See S. Sara Monoson, "Socrates' Military Service," in Victor Caston and Silke-Maria Weineck, edd., Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), pp. 96-117.
The most famous literary representation of Socrates outside the city walls of Athens is Plato's Phaedrus.
Best wishes,
Eric [Thomson]
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