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Dramatic frame and characters: Plato's Parmenides course | Zoonk

6. Dramatic frame and characters

Read the opening frame: Cephalus, Antiphon, the remembered conversation, and the unusual cast of young Socrates, Zeno, and elderly Parmenides. The chapter shows how Plato uses distance, memory, and age to shape the authority of the dialogue.

Plato's Parmenides

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