Chaerephon biography of michaels

  • With other democrats he was banished by the Thirty Tyrants and returned with Thrasybulus in , but died before Socrates' trial in
  • The presence of this oldest friend throughout the Socratic literature reveals an Athenian philosophical culture independent from if inspired by Socrates.
  • The Evagoras is then, in Michael Rewa's accurate description, 'the earliest self-standing, extended commendatory life, from birth to death, of an historical.

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    The Forscoff Lectures: A Greek Hope

    Last week, we ended with the Greek world and the pride of this ancient people. As always I demand you take notes, as the whole premise of sprite school is to learn from the triumphs of our Father, improve your tactics against the Enemy, and win more patients for our cause, coffers, and confines. Our lesson tonight focuses on the willingness of patients to help us, as demonstrated in the most cherished of Greek institutions, the Delphic Oracle.

    Behind every successful oracle in our Father’s service were scores of fiends and the Delphic Oracle proved no exception. We’d lurk in the caverns of Mount Parnassus for the priests and priestesses to mumble whatever religious jargon they thought might work, then release gas from every cleft and crevice available to us and with such vehemence we loosed scree from the mountainside. As the Oracle breathed it in, she would be lulled into a trance and uttered whatever vague pronouncements we whispered to her

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    Chaerephon the Socratic

    I. The duration of Chaerephon's relationship with Socrates

    Evidence from contemporary literature suggests that Chaerephon and Socrates were close friends for more than a decade, possibly several decades, of Socrates' philosophical maturity.

    In the Apology Socrates says Chaerephon and he knew each other since they were young (< gr >ἐκ νέου< /gr >: 21a1). Since this could mean either since childhood or early adulthood, it proves little. 17 The dramatic dates of Plato's dialogues suggest they knew each other by the late s. In the Charmides, Chaerephon gives Socrates an eager homecoming upon his return in ; this would have them knowing each other well before Socrates left, in the late s. 18

    It is most likely that the friendship continued through the mids. Plato presents it as plausible that they would have spent a normal day in the agora before meeting up with Gorgias, who visited Athens in 19 Aristophanes places Chaerephon and Socrate

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    List of oracular statements from Delphi

    Statements which have survived from various sources referring to the oracle at Delphi

    Pythia was the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. There are more than supposed oracular statements which have survived from various sources referring to the oracle at Delphi. Many are anecdotal, and have survived as proverbs. Several are ambiguously phrased, apparently in beställning to show the oracle in a good light regardless of the outcome. Such prophecies were admired for their dexterity of phrasing. The following list presents some of the most prominent and historically significant prophecies of Delphi.

    Archaic period

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    Lycurgus

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    Some early oracular statements from Delphi may have been delivered to Lycurgus, the semi-legendary Spartan lawgiver (fl. 8th century BC).

    According to the report bygd Herodotus (Histories A, 2–4), Lycurgus visited and consulted the oracle before he applied his new laws to Sparta,

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