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SUMMARY:Virtual Socrates Colloquium - Mario Regali: "Inventing Socrates: Xenophon and the birth of the Sokratikoi logoi"
DESCRIPTION:The International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to announce the updated schedule for the Virtual Socrates Colloquium 2025-2026. You can see the updated schedule HERE \nNotice that there is no need to register and all you need to do is join the following Zoom link: https://biu-ac-il.zoom.us/j/8062705537 \nThe International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Mario Regali from the Università di Napoli “Federico II” on the 20th of November at 18:00 (Rome Time) on the topic \nInventing Socrates: Xenophon and the birth of the Sokratikoi logoi \nAbstract: In the fourth century BCE\, the figure of Socrates gave rise to an unprecedented phenomenon within Greek literary culture: the development of a new literary genre by an intellectual movement. The Socratic writers of Sokratikoi logoi employed literary strategies which largely reveal that no consideration was taken of the performative contexts traditional in Athens’ social and civic life. (Nicolai 2004\, 4–7). In light of this\, studying Socrates as a literary mask – without trying to reconstruct his supposed set of doctrines – offers a promising approach (Dorion 2011). In recent years\, the debate on Xenophon’s Socrates has shifted from a strictly historical view of the character to examining his relationship with Plato’s Socrates. Two main positions have emerged: Dorion (2000\, 63–68) sees Xenophon’s Socrates as an example of enkrateia\, which he considers the primary virtue. This is in sharp contrast with Plato’s Socrates\, who considers sophia as the root of ethical virtues. Conversely\, Johnson (2018) puts forward the hypothesis of an “intertextual Socrates\,” emerging from a synthesis of the various profiles delineated by the Socratics\, without any polemical intent on Xenophon’s part. I will argue that it is the different characterizations of Socrates – particularly the various degrees of knowledge (ἐπιστήμη or σοφία) attributed to his persona – that shape the diverse forms of the new genre of Sokratikoi logoi. Regarding the relationship between Socrates and sophia\, Plato and Xenophon appear to stand at opposite ends of a spectrum ranging from the professed ignorance of Plato’s Socrates to the full possession of ethical knowledge attributed to Socrates by Xenophon.\nDifferent characterizations\, in turn\, affect the form of the writings of Plato and Xenophon. In addition to the question-answer format\, which is typical of Plato\, Xenophon presents us with didactic monologues\, gnomai\, fictitious questions\, and even biographical accounts of Socrates’ erga in which logoi are absent (I 3\, 1\, 5–8; I 4\, 13–19; II 4\, 1–2). These differences\, both in characterization and in literary forms\, stem from different aims in writing: Plato seeks to protreptically guide the reader towards philosophical education in the Academy\, whilst Xenophon transmits his ethical teachings exclusively through his writings. \nBio: Mario Regali is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. His research focuses primarily on the dialogues of Plato\, exploring themes such as the literary-poetic framing of philosophical discourse and the persona of Socrates\, as evidenced in his articles Caratterizzazione e protrettica nel Protagora di Platone (2024) and The Mask of Dialogue: on the Unity of Socrates’ Characterization in Plato’s Dialogues (2015). In his most extensive work\, Il poeta e il demiurgo (2012)\, he investigates Plato’s Timaeus and Critias from a philological perspective\, focusing on the literary framework that shapes the dialogues’ philosophical discourse.
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