Verbal Images from Plato's Dialogues
Suitable for Visual Representations

Republic:

  • Polemarchus et al. detain Soc and Glaucon - 327ac - is it a threat when Polemarchus says they can't leave?

  • Thrasymachus roars into the conversation - 336b

  • Gyges story, several images - 359d+ - see here for an interesting interpretation

  • Big letters, small letters. Could put what justice in city is in Greek letters - 368cd

  • City/individual comparison/contrast - 368e

  • pedigree puppies 375a, watchdogs, dual nature

  • Myth of Metals - 414c-415d

  • the painted statue, farmers in purple robes - 420be

  • cutting off Hydra's head, 426e

  • like hunters, 432c, dark and full of shadows

  • spinning top 436e

  • story of Leontius 439e-440a

  • Addy touches Polly's shoulder - 449b

  • Naked old women exercising - 452ac

  • Dolphin picks them up. 453d

  • Glaucon's dogs and birds - 459a

  • Marriage lottery, festivals - 459e+

  • funerals for guardians, 465d

  • Women, children in war - 466e

  • Children fly away from danger - 467de

  • Opponents rush at Soc after 3rd wave claim, 474

  • Riddles 479c, eunuch, bat

  • Waves imagery - 457c, 472a

  • The ship 488b

  • The good seed, bad ground 491d, 497b

  • consorting with philosophy, birth of truth 490b, 495c

  • demagogery in the assembly and courts 492c

  • The huge beast 493b

  • Bald tinker 495d

  • Man fallen among wild beasts 496d

  • Man takes refuge from storm 496e

  • Painters and model 501a

  • The sun, child of good - 507a+

  • Line and shadows, drawing figures 510e+

  • The cave (various angles and views) - 514a+

  • 3 fingers 523c

  • Ornaments on ceiling 529b

  • Puppies tearing an argument, 539b

  • Sending children into the country 541a

  • Drones, bees 552c

  • Donkeys in the streets - 563cd

  • Image of the soul -- different versions for diff types of soul, eg. tyrant, oligarchic - 588be

  • Generalized appetitive, spirited, rational man (or woman)

  • The table, bed or mirror, 596+

  • Various things from story of Er - lots of possibilities - 614b-621b

Theatetus:

  • head of Protagoras sprouting from the ground or from below - 171d

  • The midwife, birth of ideas, 149+

Meno:

  • swarm of bees - 72ab

  • boy doing geometry - 82b-85b

  • angry Anytus (one who brought the charges against Socates) - 95a

Euthyphro:

  • slave chained in the ditch - 4be

  • Arrogant Euthyphro - 5a-6d

  • Moving statue, 11b+

  • Euthyphro hurrying off - 15e

Apology:

  • Athenian Horse and Socratic gadfly - 30e

  • Soc quieting the audience - 17d, 27b, 30c

  • questioning Meletus - 24c+

  • Clouds images from Aristophanes' play - 18cd

Phaedrus:

  • Listening to Cicadas by river - 230bc

  • Charioteer - 253d-254e, 246ab

  • Wings budding, etc - 256d

Symposium:

  • Socrates standing and thinking, 174e+

  • the party in general

  • Send away the flute-girl - 176e

  • Roly-poly people - 189d+

  • Soc as the broken Silenus - 215b

  • Soc and Diotima - 201d+

  • The ladder (or stairs) of love - 211c

  • Alcibiades drunk - 212cd+

  • Alcibiades snuggling up to Socrates - 217b-219e

  • Soc leaving at sunrise, others passed out, etc. - 223cd

Crito:

  • Crito beside sleeping Socrates - 43b

  • The dream - 44a

  • The laws addressing Socrates - 50a+

Phaedo:

  • Death scene

  • Others crying

  • Xantippe, children

Lysis:

  • Socrates and the boys in the gym

  • Interplay and embarrassment among Lysis, Menexenus, Hippothales

Charmides:

  • Soc returning from battle - 153ab

  • Looking at his body, looking at his soul - 154d

  • Soc glimpsing inside the boy's cloak - 155d