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Abstract: Near the middle of Plato’s Protagoras, Socrates claims that the origins of philosophy lie in Crete and Sparta (342a–343c). While scholars have often taken this claim to be absurd, in this article I suggest that Socrates uses it to decenter Athens as the “school of Greece,” as depicted in Thucydides’ Periclean Funeral Oration (2.41) and reflected in the dramatic setting of the Protagoras. He focuses instead on the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi. His recentering of Delphi depicts philosophy as a Panhellenic enterprise and prioritizes the sanctuary’s religious and cultural importance.
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