The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Index Database

Results for
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.

graph

All subjects (including unvalidated):

subject	book bibliographic info
callicles	Bernabe et al (2013) 386 Cornelli (2013) 173, 253, 259, 260, 261, 299, 303 Ebrey and Kraut (2022) 54, 60 Gazis and Hooper (2021) 127, 136 Harte (2017) 77, 78 Hidary (2017) 262, 263 Huffman (2019) 140, 141 Joosse (2021) 108, 109, 119, 157, 158, 163, 164, 168, 169, 174, 175, 179, 192, 193, 199 Jorgenson (2018) 30, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 103, 180 Kirichenko (2022) 118 Legaspi (2018) 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 149 Riess (2012) 81 Wolfsdorf (2020) 201, 655, 656
callicles, callicles, , against	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014) 171
callicles, gorgias	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014) 319
callicles, on, democracy, plato’s	Wolfsdorf (2020) 283
callicles, platonic character	Erler et al (2021) 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) 173, 259, 261; Joosse (2021) 168, 169; Legaspi (2018) 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) 54; Wolfsdorf (2020) 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) 240; Joosse (2021) 108; Xenophontos and Marmodoro (2021) 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) 239, 240; Joosse (2021) 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.

Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database