Menexenus (Plato)

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Menexenus (Plato) is one of Plato’s shorter Socratic dialogues, notable for its satirical treatment of Athenian funeral orations and reflections on rhetoric and civic identity.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Platonic dialogue
Socratic dialogue
approximateDateOfComposition 4th century BCE
author Plato
centralEpisode mock funeral oration
concerns Athenian democratic ideology
public commemoration of war dead
use of myth in politics
contains parodic funeral speech
dialogueForm Socratic dialogue
examines relationship between philosophy and politics
relationship between rhetoric and truth
featuresCharacter Menexenus (Plato) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Menexenus (character)

Socrates
genre philosophical dialogue
satire
hasReceptionIn classical scholarship
modern political theory discussions of nationalism
historicalContext Classical Athens
language Ancient Greek
literaryForm prose
mainTheme Athenian civic identity
funeral orations
historical memory
patriotism
political ideology
rhetoric
philosophicalFocus critique of rhetoric
examination of civic education
questioning of Athenian self‑image
questions sincerity of patriotic discourse
value of conventional epideictic oratory
relatedWork Gorgias
Phaedrus
Republic
setting Athens
structure introductory conversation followed by a long speech
tone ironic
satirical
tradition Ancient Greek philosophy
Athenian rhetorical tradition
traditionallyClassifiedAs later dialogue of Plato
transmittedIn Platonic corpus

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this entity surface form: Menexenus (Platonic character)
Μενέξενoς notableBearer Menexenus (Plato)
this entity surface form: Menexenus of Athens
Μενέξενoς notableBearer Menexenus (Plato)
this entity surface form: Menexenus (associate of Socrates)
Platonic corpus containsWork Menexenus (Plato)
this entity surface form: Menexenus
Thrasyllan tetralogies includesWork Menexenus (Plato)
this entity surface form: Menexenus
Lysis featuresCharacter Menexenus (Plato)
this entity surface form: Menexenus
writings of Plato containsWork Menexenus (Plato)
this entity surface form: Menexenus
Menexenus (Plato) featuresCharacter Menexenus (Plato) self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Menexenus
this entity surface form: Menexenus (character)