The Female Drama: The Goddesses of Socrates’ Escape in the Republic’s Three Waves

• In Event: The Ancients on Leading and Living Well in the Political Community

Brief Overview

This paper argues that Socrates’ remark about the female drama in Book V in the Republic is based off the three waves Poseidon sends to drown Odysseus in the Odyssey.

Author

• Simeon Burns, University of Tennessee, Knoxville