Reading the quotation (Criton, 43d1–44b5): “I will go back to fertile Phthia…”
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https://doi.org/10.17851/1983-3636.11.1.173-194Keywords:
quotation, Socrates, Crito, Achilles, IliadAbstract
Analyzing the multiple possibilities of reading implied by the resource of quotation, this paper proposes a renewed discussion about a passage in Crito, 43d1–44b5. In this famous extract, where Socrates narrates to Crito a dream in which a beautiful woman comes to him and quotes one of Achilles’ sayings (the one in Iliad, IX, 363), there is a multiplicity of ways of understanding this quotation, though the traditional interpreters have neglected the most part of them. A new analysis of this complex web of references is proposed here in order to highlight the importance involved in quotation as a discursive resource.
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