Talk:Axiochus (dialogue)

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Montaigne Citation Error

The article opens with, 'Axiochus [...] is a Socratic dialogue attributed to Plato, but which has been considered spurious for over 400 years.' To support the claim of over four centuries of spuriousness, Montaigne's essay, 'On Books' is cited. However, the Montaigne essay does not raise the issue of the dialogue's validity in the Platonic canon. To the contrary, Montaigne writes, 'When I feel a distaste for Plato's Axiochus as a work without power considering such an author, my judgement does not trust itself...' Thus, rather than dismiss the dialogue as not belonging to Plato, Montaigne instead questions his own judgement. I'm no Classicist but a quick scan on the topic informs me that even as early as later antiquity, Axiochus was seen by many scholars as not being from Plato's hand. Of course, this precedes Montaigne by quite a while. https://books.google.com/books?id=GT7kAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA335&lpg=PA335&dq=Axiochus+plato+attribution&source=bl&ots=XNDlVGzIGS&sig=ACfU3U1mdjw3eMf18Vm6M1SZ_zsy1WPC_A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLpKr1k8XgAhVBKH0KHX8rDm84ChDoATAHegQIAxAB#v=onepage&q=Axiochus%20plato%20attribution&f=false RobotBoy66 (talk) 11:22, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Age of the dialogue

In Cooper/Hutchinson the age of the dialogue is described: "between 100 BC and 50 AD" -- not the 1st century as the current page has it.

Guus (talk) 22:49, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]