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8 results for "true"

1. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 228, 229

2. Plato, Sophist, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 222, 223

240a. οὔτε ὕδατα γιγνώσκειν οὔτε τὸ παράπαν ὄψιν, τὸ δʼ ἐκ τῶν λόγων ἐρωτήσει σε μόνον. ΘΕΑΙ. ποῖον; ΞΕ. τὸ διὰ πάντων τούτων ἃ πολλὰ εἰπὼν ἠξίωσας ἑνὶ προσειπεῖν ὀνόματι φθεγξάμενος εἴδωλον ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ὡς ἓν ὄν. λέγε οὖν καὶ ἀμύνου μηδὲν ὑποχωρῶν τὸν ἄνδρα. ΘΕΑΙ. τί δῆτα, ὦ ξένε, εἴδωλον ἂν φαῖμεν εἶναι πλήν γε τὸ πρὸς τἀληθινὸν ἀφωμοιωμένον ἕτερον τοιοῦτον; ΞΕ. ἕτερον δὲ λέγεις τοιοῦτον ἀληθινόν, ἢ ἐπὶ τίνι τὸ

240a. He will feign ignorance of mirrors and water and of sight altogether, and will question you only about that which is deduced from your words. Theaet. What is that? Str. That which exists throughout all these things which you say are many but which you saw fit to call by one name, when you said image of them all, as if they were all one thing. So speak and defend yourself. Do not give way to the man at all. Theaet. Why, Stranger, what can we say an image is, except another such thing fashioned in the likeness of the true one? Str. Do you mean another such true one, or

3. Plato, Theaetetus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 222

193c. ὥσπερ δακτυλίων σφῷν ἀμφοῖν τὰ σημεῖα, διὰ μακροῦ καὶ μὴ ἱκανῶς ὁρῶν ἄμφω προθυμηθῶ, τὸ οἰκεῖον ἑκατέρου σημεῖον ἀποδοὺς τῇ οἰκείᾳ ὄψει, ἐμβιβάσας προσαρμόσαι εἰς τὸ ἑαυτῆς ἴχνος, ἵνα γένηται ἀναγνώρισις, εἶτα τούτων ἀποτυχὼν καὶ ὥσπερ οἱ ἔμπαλιν ὑποδούμενοι παραλλάξας προσβάλω τὴν ἑκατέρου ὄψιν πρὸς τὸ ἀλλότριον σημεῖον, ἢ καὶ οἷα τὰ ἐν τοῖς κατόπτροις τῆς ὄψεως πάθη, δεξιὰ εἰς

4. Seneca The Younger, Natural Questions, 1.16.8-1.16.9 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •true stories, book division Found in books: Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 223, 224

5. Apuleius, Apology, 14 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •true stories, book division Found in books: Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 223

6. Achilles Tatius, The Adventures of Leucippe And Cleitophon, 1.9.4-1.9.5, 5.13-5.15 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •true stories, book division Found in books: Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 224

7. Lucian, The Sky-Man, 15-18, 20, 19 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 222

8. Lucian, A True Story, 1.22-1.26, 1.31-1.33, 1.39, 2.1, 2.32-2.35, 2.46 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •true stories, book division Found in books: Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 216, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230

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