Sunday, 23 August 2026

Major works meeting

• Starting Metamorphoses
• Starting from 1
• Ending around 243
• Next week:
  • Next week we’ll continue Metamorphoses
  • • Read Book II of Ovid
  • • (optional) read epigrams if any read any

Minor works meeting

• Finishing Sophist
• Starting from 264c
• Ending around 268d
• Next week:
  • Next week we’ll start Statesman

  • [Elisa] We continued our search for the Sophist by talking about the different types of production. Starting with division along the lines of human and divine. Both of these production have themselves and copies. We then discussed copy making which can be divided in likeness making and appearance making. Imitation is part of appearance making and it’s characterized as appearance making using the body and the voice. Further, the imitation can be performed either with knowledge (informed mimicry) or without it (belief mimicry). In the case of the belief one, the person imitating can be sincere or insincere. A sincere imitator doesn’t know he’s imitating. An insincere one however knows or suspects it strongly and so they’re afraid to be discovered. When the insincere imitator speaks to a crowd he’s a demagogue, but if they speak in private conversations where they try to contradict their interlocutor they must be what we’ve been looking for: a sophist.