Lycurgus' Extreme Wisdom: Competing Views of the Lawgiver in Plato and Xenophon

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CLASSICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.1353/tcj.2023.a914587

Susan O. Shapiro

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Abstract

Abstract:As part of the ongoing reassessment of Xenophon's philosophical works, scholars have taken a renewed interest in the relationship between Xenophon and Plato, who occasionally criticize one another's works. Although ancient commentators assumed that the two men must have been rivals, a closer look at each one's comments on the other's work reveals that their criticisms were more philosophical than personal. After discussing two examples in which Plato and Xenophon criticize one another's works, in this paper I suggest that an unusual comment made by Xenophon about Lycurgus, the legendary Spartan lawgiver, is an oblique but critical reference to a statement in Plato's Symposium about Lycurgus' wisdom.

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莱库尔格斯的极端智慧：柏拉图和色诺芬中相互竞争的律法师观点

摘要:作为对色诺芬哲学著作不断进行的重新评估的一部分，学者们对色诺芬和柏拉图之间的关系重新产生了兴趣。虽然古代评论家认为两人一定是竞争对手，但仔细研究两人对对方作品的评论就会发现，他们的批评更多的是哲学上的，而不是个人的。在讨论了柏拉图和色诺芬互相批评对方作品的两个例子之后，我在本文中提出，色诺芬对传说中的斯巴达立法者莱库尔古斯（Lycurgus）所做的不寻常的评论，是对柏拉图的《神曲》中关于莱库尔古斯的智慧的一段话的顺带批评。

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