This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
δημηγορία: here employed without any unpleasant connotation. It might seem somewhat strange that Callicles so readily admits that δημηγορία is ῥητορική,—an admission on which the whole deduction rests. The reason may be that these wordartists were very prone to extol the universality of their art, without regard to consequences. See Socrates' conversation with Gorgias (especially ch. XI.).
οἷον . . . γυναικῶν: one is certainly justified in assuming according to this passage that women were admitted to the tragedies; whether they also had the right to attend the comedies remains doubtful. The admission of slaves to the theatre was always restricted.
εἶεν: marks the conclusion of one part of the argument, viz. the premises from which the conclusion is to be drawn. Its employment here, however, also draws especial emphasis to the fact that these premises are definitely settled.
Gonzalez Lodge. Commentary on Plato Gorgias. Ginn & Company. Boston and London. 1891.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.