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| タイトル | ： 第10回 |
| 投稿日 | ： 2003/11/22(Sat) 11:07 |
| 投稿者 | ： 惣田正明 <vem13077@nifty.ne.jp> |
第10回テキスト
---はじめ---
It is not necessary to discuss at length a minor question
which has been raised by Boeckh, respecting the imaginary
date at which the conversation was held (the year 411 B. C.
which is proposed by him will do as well as any other); for a
writer of fiction, and especially a writer who, like Plato,
is notoriously careless of chronology, only aims at general
probability. Whether all the persons mentioned in the
Republic could ever have met at any one time is not a
difficulty which would have occurred to an Athenian reading
the work forty years later, or to Plato himself at the time
of writing (any more than to Shakespeare respecting one of
his own dramas); and need not greatly trouble us now. Yet
this may be a question having no answer "which is still worth
asking," because the investigation shows that we can not
argue historically from the dates in Plato; it would be
useless therefore to waste time in inventing far-fetched
reconcilements of them in order avoid chronological
difficulties, such, for example, as the conjecture of C. F.
Hermann, that Glaucon and Adeimantus are not the brothers but
the uncles of Plato, or the fancy of Stallbaum that Plato
intentionally left anachronisms indicating the dates at which
some of his Dialogues were written.
---終わり---