Cicero and the Therapists

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ID23182430
AuthorsStephen White (0000-0002-2112-1560, corresponding author), Stephen A White
Year1995
Pages219-246
Publication date1995-07-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueCicero the philosopher (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198147510.003.0009
OpenAlexW4388370281
ISBN9780198147510
LanguageEN
Citations received10

When Alcibiades, flush from carousing in the streets, bursts in on Agathon’s symposium and launches his exuberant eulogy of Socrates, he begins by likening his friend the philosopher to the satyr Marsyas whose looks repelled but whose piping enchanted. Whenever I listen to him, my heart pounds more than a Corybant’s and his words move me to tears; and I see many others affected in the same way. When I listened to Pericles and other good speakers, I thought their speeches were good, but I wasn’t affected like that at all. My soul wasn’t in turmoil and I wasn’t upset at myself for behaving like a slave. But this Marsyas here has often moved me to judge life not worth living in my present condition.

Art · Art history · Cicero · Eulogy · Literature · Psychoanalysis · SOCRATES · Soul · Theology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Philosophy · Psychology

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