When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Homer (everywhere)
- Sophocles (329b-c)
- Aristophanes, The Frogs (329b-c), Ecclesiazusae (461d)
- Aeschylus (380a, 381d, 391e), Seven Against Thebes (361b, 362a-b), Agamemnon (408b)
- Hesiod, Works and Days (363b, 364d, 466c, 4683-469a)
- Archilochus (365c)
- Hesiod, Theogeny (377e-378a)
- Euripides, Alcestis (408b), The Trojan Women (568b)
- Pindar (457b), Pythians (408b), Herodotus (453d)
Historical References
- Periander (336a)
- King Perdiccas II of Macedonia (336a)
- King Xerxes (336a)