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Footnotes
- Plato1">1 "Summon the great masters of either kind of poetry- Epicharmus, the prince of Comedy, and Homer of Tragedy", Theaetetus, by Plato, section §152e.[1] (translation by Benjamin Jowett[2]). There is some variability in translation of the passage. Words like "king", "chief", "leader", "master" are used in the place of "prince" in different translations. The basic Greek word in Plato is "akroi" from "akros" meaning topmost or high up. In this context it means "of a degree highest of its kind" or "consummate" (cf. Liddell & Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon).[3]
- Introduction
- Midwife to knowledge
- Philosophical labor
- Examining the offspring
- Abusing the "orphan" of Protagoras
- The absent-minded philosopher
- The men of flux
- The mind as a bird cage
- Significant references in the dialogue
- Footnotes
- References
- Selected secondary literature
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