Menexenus
Menexenus
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They began with Gods and ancestors, and the legendary history ofAthens, to which succeeded an almost equally fictitious account of latertimes. The Persian war usually formed the centre of the narrative; inthe age of Isocrates and Demosthenes the Athenians were still living onthe glories of Marathon and Salamis. The Menexenus veils in panegyricthe weak places of Athenian history. The war of Athens and Boeotia isa war of liberation; the Athenians gave back the Spartans taken atSphacteria out of k...indness--indeed, the only fault of the city was toogreat kindness to their enemies, who were more honoured than the friendsof others (compare Thucyd. , which seems to contain the germ of theidea); we democrats are the aristocracy of virtue, and the like. Theseare the platitudes and falsehoods in which history is disguised. Thetaking of Athens is hardly mentioned.
The author of the Menexenus, whether Plato or not, is evidentlyintending to ridicule the practice, and at the same time to show that hecan beat the rhetoricians in their own line, as in the Phaedrus he maybe supposed to offer an example of what Lysias might have said, and ofhow much better he might have written in his own style.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They began with Gods and ancestors, and the legendary history ofAthens, to which succeeded an almost equally fictitious account of latertimes. The Persian war usually formed the centre of the narrative; inthe age of Isocrates and Demosthenes the Athenians were still living onthe glories of Marathon and Salamis. The Menexenus veils in panegyricthe weak places of Athenian history. The war of Athens and Boeotia isa war of liberation; the Athenians gave back the Spartans taken atSphacteria out of k...indness--indeed, the only fault of the city was toogreat kindness to their enemies, who were more honoured than the friendsof others (compare Thucyd. , which seems to contain the germ of theidea); we democrats are the aristocracy of virtue, and the like. Theseare the platitudes and falsehoods in which history is disguised. Thetaking of Athens is hardly mentioned.
The author of the Menexenus, whether Plato or not, is evidentlyintending to ridicule the practice, and at the same time to show that hecan beat the rhetoricians in their own line, as in the Phaedrus he maybe supposed to offer an example of what Lysias might have said, and ofhow much better he might have written in his own style.
What to read after Menexenus?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Plato to read onlineMoreLess
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