A recently published portrait herm, the Berkeley Plato, raises questions about his athletic career as a youth. There can be no doubt that he was a wrestler as shown both by later sources and his own vocabulary, but did he compete internationally? Was he an Olympic athlete? Was he an Olympic victor? Or was wrestling so much a part of Athenian education that Plato the Wrestler is an expression of a societal norm? Or both? Or is the portrait not so much of the man, as it is of his philosophy?(Stephen Miller, University of California,Berkeley)
Plato's Academy, Ancient Athens, Ancient Greece, Philosophical and scientific thought, History of Philosophy, History of Science, Palaistra, Olympic victory, Ancient Greek athletics
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Sunday, December 16, 2012 Afternoon Session. Chair: Panos Valavanis (Athens)
