Ion is a rhapsode, a professional narrator of Homer, who obtained the first prize in the festival of Asclepius. The primary issues between these two contradictory characters’ are the difference between gift of speech and knowledge of speech, as well as the attending of oneself to moral by understanding an idea as a whole rather than superficially understanding.
While Socrates considers himself “a common man who only speak the truth” (47), Ion is proud and boastful, regarding himself as a rhapsode who can “speak about Homer better than any man” (47).
In Ion, Plato presents a dialogue between his influential teacher Socrates and a distinguished rhapsode, Ion.
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