Images of love and politics : Plato 's conscious manipulation of myths

dc.contributor.author	Strijdom, Johan M.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-02-27T14:06:05Z
dc.date.available	2012-02-27T14:06:05Z
dc.date.issued	2004
dc.identifier.citation	Strijdom, J.M. 2004,'Images of love and politics : Plato 's conscious manipulation of myths', Phronimon: Journal of the SA Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-12.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5479
dc.description.abstract	This paper offers a comparative analysis of the ways in which Plato used mythical language in order to convey his views on love and politics. For politics, the myth of the metals in the Republic and of Atlantis in the Timaeus/Critias will be analysed. For love, the function of myths in the Symposium and Phaedrus will be compared and contrasted. The emphasis will be on the self-conscious and subtle ways in which Plato manipulated imaginative constructs in order to serve his philosophical views.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Image	en
dc.subject	Love and politics	en
dc.subject	Myths	en
dc.title	Images of love and politics : Plato 's conscious manipulation of myths	en
dc.type	Article	en