Yes and the citation should serve as a cautioning moment to appreciate
the Homeric tradition upon which I agree Plato drew. In this case, the
citation is Homer's own statement concerning a certain kind of
first-person story for a specific audience. Homer includes the aspect of
specificity in the reasons for not re-telling the story: clearly, a
story told twice is no longer audience-specific. But not everything that
can be cited from a Homeric character can be attributed to Homer: his
voice is not the same as the voices of his characters. What more
powerful device of composition could Plato have learned from Homer or
Socrates from Odysseus?

George



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> [mailto:plato-timaeus@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von Thomas H. Chance
> Gesendet: Samstag, 26. August 2006 21:45
> An: plato-timaeus@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: Re: AW: [plato-timaeus] Re: Conflict with Critias &
> Critias'smemory
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> > It seems to be, Christopher, can you are confusing a direct-action
> > play with the story the *Republic* is: Socrates cannot go around
> > repeating the *Republic*. Actors can repeat plays, but not
> stories. --
> > It would seem to follow that a Socratic story can only be
> told once.
> > That is a good reason why Socrates could not on the 'yesterday' of
> > *Timaeus* have repeated the *Republic*. -- I doubt there is
> any real
> > disagreement about that.
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> "Why tell the rest of
> this story again, since yesterday in your house I told it
> to you and your majestic wife? It is hateful to me
> to tell a story over again, when it has been well told.
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> Odyssey. Book 12, 450-453
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