Open AccessAnanke and Peitho: About Timaios 48A
Author(s) -
Kosztasz Rosta
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
különbség
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2560-158X
pISSN - 1785-7821
DOI - 10.14232/kulonbseg.2016.16.1.213
Subject(s) - compromise , interpretation (philosophy) , paraphrase , persuasion , simple (philosophy) , frame (networking) , literature , philosophy , aesthetics , art , epistemology , sociology , computer science , linguistics , social science , telecommunications
The article addresses the question of how to interpret the case that the Demiurgos makes Necessity (Ananke) cooperate through persuasion (Peitho) in Timaios 48A. After a brief survey of possibilities, I argue for Cornford’s interpretation, namely that Plato is using the concept of compromise here from Aeschylus’s The Eumenides. Yet, this is no simple paraphrase, because it is based on a scheme related to Athenian self-definition and forms the core of the taming-civilizing frame of reference of both texts