"सूर्य पाहिलेला माणूस "हे नाटक यापूर्वी ह्या ब्लॉग वर दोन तीन वेळा आलं आहे ....
Artist: Honore Daumier
" ... For instance, what could be more enchanting than a Socrates who solo-dances for joy and exercise, so unlike the Socrates we know from Plato? In Xenophon’s Symposium, Socrates asks the Phoenician dance-master to show him some dance moves. Everyone laughs: what will you do with dance moves, Socrates? He replies: ‘I’ll dance, by God!’ A friend of Socrates then tells the group that he had stopped by his house early in the morning, and found him dancing alone. When questioned about it, Socrates happily confesses to solo-dancing often. It’s great exercise, it moves the body in symmetry, it can be done indoors or outdoors with no equipment, and it freshens the appetite...
Bettany Hughes:
"...Of course
comedy is where Socrates belongs. Where else could he be? The ugly, pot-bellied
eccentric. The wrong-footing genius; the stonemason’s son who understands how
fragile and foolish mortal life is, and yet at the same time how sublime. The
soldier commended for his bravery who stands, like a snowman in the middle of a
winter campaign, caught in one of his embarrassing staring fits. All the other
characters in Socrates’ story – Alcibiades, Pericles, Aspasia – could appear in
tragedy, in epic drama. Socrates, unique, world-class as he is, is at the same
time a queer middle-aged man with feet of clay. A curiously comforting,
curiously unsettling pilot-passenger in the leaky lifeboat. A man easy to
mock...."
"Socratic dancing",Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Artist: Honore Daumier
" ... For instance, what could be more enchanting than a Socrates who solo-dances for joy and exercise, so unlike the Socrates we know from Plato? In Xenophon’s Symposium, Socrates asks the Phoenician dance-master to show him some dance moves. Everyone laughs: what will you do with dance moves, Socrates? He replies: ‘I’ll dance, by God!’ A friend of Socrates then tells the group that he had stopped by his house early in the morning, and found him dancing alone. When questioned about it, Socrates happily confesses to solo-dancing often. It’s great exercise, it moves the body in symmetry, it can be done indoors or outdoors with no equipment, and it freshens the appetite...
.... Though the historical person of Socrates will remain
forever enigmatic, it could be argued that Xenophon strikes closer to real life
in his depictions of the man. Plato had a serious philosophical agenda of his
own, involving a search for transcendence, purified rationality and sublimity.
Xenophon’s interests are at once more worldly and more realistic..."