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Wine and Ecstasy in Plato

A Metaphor of Sorts and Its Early Reception

by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

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Examines inebriation as a culturally informed metaphor employed by Plato to defend the mind-altering effects of philosophy and its reception to the second-century CE.

Ancient Greek PhilosophyPlatoPhenomenologyPolitical PhilosophyCultural AnthropologyMetaphor