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.
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