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subject	book bibliographic info
callicles	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 386 Bowie (2023), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, Volume 2: Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels. 82 Cornelli (2013), In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category, 173, 253, 259, 260, 261, 299, 303 Ebrey and Kraut (2022), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed, 54, 60 Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 127, 136 Harte (2017), Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows, 77, 78 Hidary (2017), Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash, 262, 263 Huffman (2019), A History of Pythagoreanism, 140, 141 Joosse (2021), Olympiodorus of Alexandria: Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher, 108, 109, 119, 157, 158, 163, 164, 168, 169, 174, 175, 179, 192, 193, 199 Jorgenson (2018), The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought, 30, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 103, 180 Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 118 Legaspi (2018), Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 149 Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 81 Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 201, 655, 656
callicles, callicles, , against	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 171
callicles, character in plato’s gorgias	MacDougall (2022), Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition. 72
callicles, gorgias	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 319
callicles, on, democracy, plato’s	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 283
callicles, platonic character	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243

List of validated texts:

4 validated results for "callicles"

1. Plato, Gorgias, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Callicles

Found in books: Cornelli (2013), In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category, 173, 259, 261; Joosse (2021), Olympiodorus of Alexandria: Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher, 168, 169; Legaspi (2018), Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition, 132

^503a διὰ ταῦτα, οὐδὲν φροντίζουσιν; ΚΑΛ. οὐχ ἁπλοῦν ἔτι τοῦτο ἐρωτᾷς· εἰσὶ μὲν γὰρ οἳ κηδόμενοι τῶν πολιτῶν λέγουσιν ἃ λέγουσιν, εἰσὶν δὲ καὶ οἵους σὺ λέγεις. ΣΩ. ἐξαρκεῖ. εἰ γὰρ καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι διπλοῦν, τὸ μὲν ἕτερόν που τούτου κολακεία ἂν εἴη καὶ αἰσχρὰ δημηγορία, τὸ δʼ ἕτερον καλόν, τὸ παρασκευάζειν ὅπως ὡς βέλτισται ἔσονται τῶν πολιτῶν αἱ ψυχαί, καὶ διαμάχεσθαι λέγοντα τὰ βέλτιστα, εἴτε ἡδίω εἴτε ἀηδέστερα ἔσται τοῖς ἀκούουσιν.'^507e τῷ μακαρίῳ μέλλοντι ἔσεσθαι, οὕτω πράττειν, οὐκ ἐπιθυμίας ἐῶντα ἀκολάστους εἶναι καὶ ταύτας ἐπιχειροῦντα πληροῦν, ἀνήνυτον κακόν, λῃστοῦ βίον ζῶντα. οὔτε γὰρ ἂν ἄλλῳ ἀνθρώπῳ προσφιλὴς ἂν εἴη ὁ τοιοῦτος οὔτε θεῷ· κοινωνεῖν γὰρ ἀδύνατος, ὅτῳ δὲ μὴ ἔνι κοινωνία, φιλία οὐκ ἂν εἴη. ΣΩ. φασὶ δʼ οἱ σοφοί, ὦ Καλλίκλεις, καὶ οὐρανὸν καὶ ' None

^503a Call. This question of yours is not quite so simple; for there are some who have a regard for the citizens in the words that they utter, while there are also others of the sort that you mention. Soc. That is enough for me. For if this thing also is twofold, one part of it, I presume, will be flattery and a base mob-oratory, while the other is noble—the endeavor, that is, to make the citizens’ souls as good as possible, and the persistent effort to say what is best, whether it prove more or less pleasant to one’s hearers.'^507e a man who would be blessed with the needful justice and temperance; not letting one’s desires go unrestrained and in one’s attempts to satisfy them—an interminable trouble—leading the life of a robber. For neither to any of his fellow-men can such a one be dear, nor to God; since he cannot commune with any, and where there is no communion, there can be no friendship. Soc. And wise men tell us, Callicles, that heaven and earth ' None

2. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Callicles

Found in books: Ebrey and Kraut (2022), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed, 54; Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 655

3. None, None, nan (6th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Callicles • Callicles (Platonic character) • Callicles,

Found in books: Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 240; Joosse (2021), Olympiodorus of Alexandria: Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher, 108; Xenophontos and Marmodoro (2021), The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, 93

4. None, None, nan (6th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Callicles • Callicles (Platonic character)

Found in books: Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 239, 240; Joosse (2021), Olympiodorus of Alexandria: Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher, 168, 199

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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