Wiener Studien 129/2016, pp. 93-154, 2016/08/05
Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
Recent interest in the Platonic Theages has revealed considerable disagreement over the interpretation of the dialogue’s lengthy and famous presentation of Socrates’ divine sign. Drawing on a close reading and philological analysis of the text of Theages and a full consideration of scholarship on the dialogue, this article seeks to demonstrate in detail the degree to which its presentation of Socrates’ sign is unique within the Platonic Corpus, the author’s motives for crafting this presentation, and the bearing which it has on the question of the dialogue’s meaning and authenticity.
