W.K.C. Guthrie, Life of Plato and philosophical influences

From, A History of Greek Philosophy, vol. IV, Plato: the man and his dialogues, earlier period,
Cambridge University Press, 1989⁶, pp. 8-38. 

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[32] Wilamowitz, Antig. von Karyst. exc. 2, pp. 263ff.: ‘Die rechtliche Stellung der Philoso­phenschulen’. Ι believe him to be right, but see also Field, Ρ. and Contemps. 46f. For an excellent description of the situation and general character of the Academy, see Μarrou, Hist. οf Ed. 67f.

[33] Aeschines, in Timarch. 10. (The law prescribes the rules περὶ Μουσείων τῶν ἐν τοῖς διδασκαλείοις.) Boyancé (Culte des Muses 262) thought the Ρhaedo passage gave the ‘true explanation’ of Plato’s choice of the Muses.

[34] The story is told by Plutarch (Qu. conv. 6.686aff.; cf. De san. 127b) and more briefly by Athenaeus (10.419c).

[35] Ath. 5.186b (νοl. I, 405 Kaibel): ‘The philosophers made it their business to join with their students in feasting according to certain set rules. There were "sympotic laws" of Xenocrates in the Academy, and also of Aristotle.’ Id. 13.585b speaks of νόμον συσσιτικόν written in imitation of the philosophers, and they occur in the list of the works of Aristotle (D.L. 5.26), who also wrote a book περὶ μέθης, the subject treated by Ρ1atο in Laws I. (Ar. frr. 103ff. Rose.)

[36] See Festugiere, Εpic. aπd Gods 25 and reff. there.

[37] Antig. (fl. c. 240 B.C.) ap. Ath. 12.547. Ι have omitted the inessential φυσικῶς, retained by Wilam. (A. νon Κ. 84), for which Kaibel prints Bergk’s suggestion μουσικῶς.

[38] Aristox. Elem. Harm. 2, p. 30 Meibom. Full text in Düring, A. in Anc. B.Τ. 357f., where see his commentary. Part of text with commentary also in Gaiser, Testt. Plat. no. 7.

[39] It was questions of this sort that aroused Cherniss’s suspicions about the whole nature of the ‘unwritten doctrines’ (Riddle 11f). Cf on this Düring, A. in Anc. B.Τ. 359-61.

[40] Epicrates fr. 11 (vol. II, p. 287 Kock); full text in Gaiser, test. 6, trans. Field, Ρ. and Contemps. 38f. For modern bibliography see Balme in CQ 1962, 81 n. 5.

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