Epigrams (Plato)
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Eighteen Epigrams are attributed to Plato, most of them considered spurious. These are short poems suitable for dedicatory purposes written in the form of elegiac couplets.[1]
Figures mentioned
Notable figures referenced in the epigrams include:
- Dion, the political figure of Syracuse whose campaign is discussed at length in the Platonic Epistles, mourned in Epigram 3.
- Phaedrus and Agathon, two Classical Athenians featured in the Socratic dialogues, mentioned in Epigrams 4 and 6 respectively.
- Xanthippe, perhaps the wife of Socrates,[1] a lover mentioned in Epigram 8.
- Sappho, the Archaic poet celebrated as the tenth Muse in Epigram 16.
- Aristophanes, the Classical comic playwright described reverently as inspired by the Graces in Epigram 18.
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