Platón - Blog Posts
platonic dialogues are just like.
socrates: massive chunk of text
the other guy: everything you say is beautiful and true.
" Beni mahkûmiyete götüren sebep, benden beklediğiniz gibi ağlayıp sızlamamış olmam, kendime hiç yakıştıramadığım ama başkalarından duymaya son derece alışık olduğunuz pek çok şeyi söyleyip yapmamış olmamdır. Bu kadar arsız olmadığım, bu şekilde düşkünlük göstermediğim için mahkûm edildim ben. "
This is the pile of things I am planing to read while working through “Who’s Afraid Of Gender” (Judith Butler) for my thesis.
P.s. I already read Plato’a “Symposion” and wrote a paper in the uni about it, but I liked it so much I wanted to read something about Symposion since I have nobody to talk to about it.
‹‹ Καλὸς καὶ ἀγαθός ››
‹‹ beautiful and good ››
In Ancient Greece kindness and beauty go hand in hand. Valorous Heroes and Powerful Gods are always described with a particular beauty and their brightness is one of the most important characteristic.
In Homer's Greek, eyes are sparkling, the skin is bright and etc, those aspects are translated as "blue eyes", "milky white skin", "golden hair". Lexicon of the colours in ancient greek is also pretty problematic, more than the real shades of eyes and hair, in those texts what matters is properly the level of brightness, because Deities are associated to light, so that Gods and Demi-gods shine.
Also in the next eras the binomial "good and beautiful" benefits of great success: in the greek arts, where beauty canons require beautiful and regular lineaments, also in portraiture of real persons, who appear all uniformly beautiful, similar and without defects (wrinkles, moles, receding hairline...)
Pretty different is, however, Roman portraiture, that goes to realism and made it its main goal.
In Homeric Poems, ugliness and deformity are associated to the viles, untrustworthy, envious. Later, the discourse is modified, because ugliness becomes an allegory and is applied to monsters fought by heroes.
"The strenght of the good is refugee in the nature of the Beautiful", wrote Platon. The beauty of physique corresponds to the moral perfection, according ancient greeks.
