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Conover Bribery in Classical Athens Chapter Two therefore, oligarchy brought with it a new conception of the dōrodokos; and it is to this newly conceived figure that the next chapter turns. 125
Conover Bribery in Classical Athens Chapter Three In the Shadow of the Thirty: Dōrodokia in the Generation after the Peloponnesian War 403-378 BCE When Plato’s Socrates sets up his ideal city in the Republic, he explicitly bans its citizens from becoming bribe-takers and money-lovers (dwrodo/kouj…filoxrhma/touj Pl. Rep. 390d6); the dōrodokos was not allowed in Callipolis. As a result, Socrates argues, the city should ban all poetry that praises or describes dōrodokia, including lines from Hesiod, parts of the Iliad in which Achilles accepts bribes, and even certain stories about the gods, like the hero Asclepius who according to tradition took bribes to bring a man back to life (Rep. 3.390d-e, 3.408b-c). Socrates fears that the moral education of the citizens of Callipolis might suffer if such poor exempla were held before them. Indeed, the philosopher goes so far as to say that they should deny that Achilles was ever so greedy (filoxrh/maton) as to take bribes from Agamemnon or Priam (Pl. Rep. 3.390e6- 8). As Socrates later explains about Asclepius, if someone is the son of a god, they should insist that he is not venal or greedy (ai)sxrokerdh/j), and if he is greedy, they should insist that he is not the son of a god (Pl. Rep. 3.408c1-3). The two are simply incompatible social types. For Plato, not only was the dōrodokos a distinct social type in its own right, but that type was, specifically, money-loving just like an Achilles or an Asclepius, a corrupt character born of economic excess. Elsewhere in the Republic Plato identifies the causes 126
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