Le tribunal des enfants dans le Gorgias (466d et 521e-522a): Un souvenir d'Homere (Odyssée XI, 547)?
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| Résumé : | Plato seems regard as genuine, Odyssey XI, 547 that belongs to the so-called Nekuya, and from this Homeric line he seems draw his inspiration in two passages of the Gorgias that foretell the eschatologic myth: for in both texts children do justice. There Plato compares Socrates with Ajax who unfairly did not receive Achilles' weapons, and uses against Athenian democracy (see Republic VIII, 560c-566b) the image of the children court as a carnavalesque symbol of the upside-down world. |
