Opening Ion — Plato in Plato Scroll…
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Plato · David Horan
Greetings Ion, from where are you visiting us today? From your home in Ephesus? Not at all, Socrates. No, I have come from the festival of Asclepius at Epidaurus. Oh, have the Epidaurians also instituted a contest for rhapsodes in honour of the god? They have indeed, and for music and poetry in general. Well then, did you compete for us? How did you get on? We came away with first prize, Socrates. That is good to hear. Make sure that we win at the Panathenaea too. That will happen, God willing. And indeed, Ion, I have often been envious of the skill of you rhapsodes. For it is always appropriate to this profession of yours that you are dressed up and look as beautiful as you possibly can. And again, we envy the fact that you need to occupy your time with various poets, lots of them, good ones too, and especially with Homer, the best and most divine of them all, and thoroughly understand …
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