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  • 7 - Making Marvels: Thaumatopoiia and Thaumatourgia

  • Jessica Lightfoot, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
    Published online:
    19 July 2021
    Print publication:
    16 September 2021, pp 174-198
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    This chapter further examines the ambivalent position that wonder occupies in Athenian culture in the late fifth and early fourth century BCE. It explores the place of wonder in Plato’s dialogues and offers a new reading of the Republic’s famous Cave Allegory through the specific lens of wonder to open up new perspectives on both the dialogue itself and on Plato’s broader conception of what philosophy is and what it does. Moreover, this chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the evidence for thaumatopoiia/thaumatourgia (marvel-making/wonder-working), a form of Greek performance tradition, and examines the uses of marvel-making in Xenophon’s Symposium to examine more fully the relationship between wonder and philosophy in this period.