Publications

Authors:

Prandi, Luisa

Title:

Utopia o atopia? (le parole dell’utopia in Platone, Menesseno, Timeo 20e-24e e Crizia). Un aggiornamento

Year:

2020

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Italiano

Format:

A Stampa

Book Title:

Enjeux interculturels de l’utopie politique dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine

Publisher:

Edizioni dell'Orso

ISBN:

978-88-3613-145-7

Page numbers:

413-421

Keyword:

Plato; atopos logos; Isles of the Blessed; Athens; Atlantis

Short description of contents:

These pages aim to draw a frame for two utopian expressions I found in Plato: atopos logos and Isles of the Blessed. The comparison between Athens and the Isles of the Blessed is a piece of propaganda against a pillar of democratic Athens, the epitaphios logos, but it is not original because Aristophanes already used this image. Instead, the idea of an atopos logos, of a counterfactual history is more interesting: the tale of Athens and Atlantis aims to clarifying something to the Greeks living in the Fourth Century BC and, by virtue of this duty, it enjoys a particular genre of truthfulness.

Product ID:

119998

Handle IRIS:

11562/1038907

Last Modified:

November 4, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Prandi, Luisa, Utopia o atopia? (le parole dell’utopia in Platone, Menesseno, Timeo 20e-24e e Crizia). Un aggiornamento Enjeux interculturels de l’utopie politique dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine , Edizioni dell'Orso , 2020 , pp. 413-421

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