Opening Hippias Minor — Plato in Plato Scroll…
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Plato · David Horan
Why are you silent, Socrates, when Hippias has put on such a demonstration? Why don’t you join in the praise, or if you think he said something wrong why don’t you challenge him? Especially since we have been left to ourselves, we who seriously claim to be involved in philosophic discourse. Yes, indeed, Eudicus, there are matters in what Hippias said just now about Homer on which I would like to question him. For I often heard your father, Apemantus, saying that Homer’s Iliad was a better poem than his Odyssey, insofar as Achilles was a better man than Odysseus, and one of these poems features Odysseus, while the other features Achilles. So if Hippias is willing, I would gladly question him about this matter, and what he thinks of these two men, and which of the two, according to him, is better. For he has indeed presented us with a great variety of information about various poets, …
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