Re: [Air-L] A Sunday morning curiosity: Marlon Brando and Medium Theory in 1953?

Charles Ess said:

... Socrates' use of myth is fairly specific and careful, almost technical, at least as Plato presents it (again, Socrates is to some extent a fictive-theatrical character here, not necessarily an attempt at a faithful portrait, etc.).

Paul Johnson amusingly calls this character Platsoc. (Socrates: A Man for Our Times)