Siris

(up to 492c) With the entrance of Callicles, we get a new beginning. This is signaled by a repetition (481b): CALLICLES: Tell me, Chaere...

Lauren O'Connell, "I Would Rather Be Gone"

(up to 481b) Polus jumps into the conversation, claiming that all Socrates has done is take advantage of the fact that Gorgias was too ash...

Two recent posts ( here at Feser's and here at Chastek's ) have me thinking about the importance of novelty within art. Aquinas l...

O Ye, All Ye that Walk in Willow-wood by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 'O ye, all ye that walk in Willow-wood, That walk with hollow faces ...

History, the great mistress of wisdom, furnishes examples of all kinds; and every prudential, as well as moral precept, may be authorized by...

Plato's Gorgias , one of the longest of Plato's shorter works, is one of the more important Platonic dialogues, and I would say is t...