The physical appearance of Socrates
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Alcibiades' description of Socrates in the Symposium:
- "he is likest to the Silenus-figures that sit in the statuaries' shops; those, I mean, which our craftsmen make with pipes or flutes in their hands: when their two halves are pulled open, they are found to contain images of gods. And I further suggest that he resembles the satyr Marsyas."
- "the remarkable ugliness which Socrates himself describes in Xenophon's version of the Banquet (and which certainly appears in the portrait transmitted to our time)." --Socrates and Athenian Society in His Day
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