![]() It is Polemarchus (whose name means "war-lord" or "general") who instigates the flyting with Socrates during the festivities for the goddess Bendis before the dialogue proper begins. ![]() Polemarchus Cephalus' son and the pupil of Lysias, a teacher of rhetoric. His remarks to Socrates at the beginning of the dialogue foreshadow topics that Socrates will develop later in the dialogue. Cephalus' significance in the dialogue is that he exemplifies the seasoned experienced man who, though not a philosopher, has tried to live the good life and to adopt the virtues he has heard about. Cephalus and Socrates initiate the dialogue, which begins with a casual friendly conversation. ![]() Socrates has known him a long time and admires him. The Socrates of the Dialogues serves as a persona (a mask, or fictive character) for Plato himself, who hoped, perhaps, thus to grant a kind of immortality to his teacher.Ĭephalus A wealthy and retired old businessman, head of a business family. Note that the Socrates who speaks in Plato's Dialogues is not, of course, the man, Socrates. His name means "master of life," and it is he who advances all of Plato's theories. Socrates The major speaker in the dialogue. ![]()
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