Sentence examples for dramatic date from inspiring English sources

Echecrates might have been born around 420 and thus be a young man at the dramatic date of the Phaedo.

Socrates' interlocutors, Simmias and Cebes, indicate that they had heard Philolaus in Thebes at some time before the dramatic date of the dialogue (399 BC).

The dramatic date of the dialogue is before Plato's birth, and Socrates' main partners are Plato's maternal uncle, Charmides, then a teenager, and Charmides' older first cousin Critias.

The two dialogues with fluid dramatic dates, across the Peloponnesian wars (431-404), are Gorgias and Republic.

The larger column on the left below provides some of the biographical information from the ancient sources with the dramatic dates of Plato's dialogues interspersed [in boldface] throughout.

(iii) One should be cautious even about the dramatic dates of Plato's dialogues (§3) because they are calculated with reference to characters whom we know primarily, though not only, from the dialogues.

Some scholars believe that the Republic, narrated by Socrates in the first person, is itself that first speech, but the dramatic dates of the two dialogues, as well as certain internal difficulties, makes that impossible.

Hilal, whose motions are deliberate and dramatic, tossed date pits onto a silver tray.

This year Pfizer announced plans to sell its infant-nutrition and animal-health businesses.But Abbott's announcement may be the most dramatic to date.

We weren't entirely satisfied with Qarth in season two, and given that this season is Dany's most dramatic to date, we wanted to make sure the locations lived up to the grandeur of the storyline.

Chayka (The Seagull) is Chekhov's only dramatic work dating with certainty from the Melikhovo period.