#gorgias

[philosophybits]

Inspired incantations bring on pleasure and bring away grief through words. For conversing with the soul’s opinion the power of incantation charms, persuades, and changes it by witchcraft.

Gorgias, Fragments, B11

[yorgunherakles]

sokrates : ey gorgias, neye imrendiğine iyi bak; istediğin şeye bir bak.

platon - gorgias

[theofylakt]

my silly guy

[palamedestragedy]

Although I am capable of accusing you in turn of many grave things, both old and new, I do not wish to. For I wish to be exonerated of this charge not through your evil deeds, but through my good ones. That, then, is all I have to say regarding you. — Defense of Palamedes, 27 (Gatt)

palamedes referring to odysseus (and diomedes / agamemnon, depending on which sources you favour) here... hm. much to think about.

[goncharov-propaganda-factory]

i love socrates

[darkleysgarden]

Just bought a secondhand copy of Gorgias with this note in it and it's filled with little annotations. This is gonna be a great reading experience

[riri-s2]

whenever someone tries to argue that helen of sparta's innocence can't be proved or that her character will always be ambiguous, I feel like an archetypical crazy person letting my angry hound loose on a foe.

my foe being said someone and my angry hound being gorgias.

ehrm actually🤓☝️gorgias has already DECLARED that helen is innocent☝️! therefore innocent she is☝️!

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