On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:24:13 -0400 // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> writes:
> On Apr 15, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:55 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> It's a hypothesis. My take away from reading the dialogs.
> >> We know nothing about Socrates except what Plato tells us.
> >
> > Are you sure? I don't have time to look it up right now, but I
> could
> > swear I read that a few a people besides Plato wrote down some of
> what
> > Socrates said.
>
>
> Xenophon, I think. Aristotle quotes other sources as well.
Also, Arisiphones wrote a play, The Clouds, which poked fun at Socrates, in which he was portrayed as a kind of sophist.
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> —ravi
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