Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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... Xenophon's Banquet 2. 10. Diogenes Laertius seems to take the statement of the oracle from Plato's Apology and the char- acter of Xanthippe from Xenophon . This is the sole reference to Socrates in which Milton uses Xenophon alone as ...
... Xenophon's Banquet 2. 10. Diogenes Laertius seems to take the statement of the oracle from Plato's Apology and the char- acter of Xanthippe from Xenophon . This is the sole reference to Socrates in which Milton uses Xenophon alone as ...
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... Xenophon and Plato . But it is to Xenophon next after Plato that a student of Socrates must turn . According to Professor Saurat ( La Pensée de Milton , p . 274 ) , Milton was as much interested in the Socrates of Xenophon as in the ...
... Xenophon and Plato . But it is to Xenophon next after Plato that a student of Socrates must turn . According to Professor Saurat ( La Pensée de Milton , p . 274 ) , Milton was as much interested in the Socrates of Xenophon as in the ...
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... Xenophon led Milton , his references show : Socrates appears in his pages as the figure Plato made the most interesting in the Dialogues . And Xenophon is often merely an emphatic line drawn under Plato . But Milton often associates ...
... Xenophon led Milton , his references show : Socrates appears in his pages as the figure Plato made the most interesting in the Dialogues . And Xenophon is often merely an emphatic line drawn under Plato . But Milton often associates ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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