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.

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

Prandi Luisa
2020-01-01

Abstract

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.
2020
978-88-3613-145-7
Plato
atopos logos
Isles of the Blessed
Athens
Atlantis
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