Cephalus

In this "Cephalus" especially, note the extreme equality and serenity of every outline.

Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 John Ruskin 1859

When Cephalus characterizes justice as keeping promises and returning what is owed, Socrates objects by citing a case in which returning what is owed would not be just (331c).

Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic Brown, Eric 2009

In Book One, the Republic's question first emerges in the figure of Cephalus.

Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic Brown, Eric 2009

Cephalus to dwell in heaven for the love she bore him; yet these in heaven abide nor shun the gods 'approach, content, I trow, to yield to their misfortune.

Hippolytus 2008

Cephalus to dwell in heaven for the love she bore him; yet these in heaven abide nor shun the gods 'approach, content, I trow, to yield to their misfortune.

Hippolytus 2008

These old men have no need of it, not necessarily because they are old, but because their passion for their lives is at one with their lives; either, as in the case of Cephalus, because his private passion is well spent and he is without rancor; or because, as in the case of the old forest creature, his passion remains in control of his old God, who was worthy of it.

The Passive-Aggressive Freedom-Lover’s Distributed Book Club #3: Stanley Cavell, Foreword: An Audience for Philosophy, from Must we mean what we say? xxi-xlii 2008

These old men have no need of it, not necessarily because they are old, but because their passion for their lives is at one with their lives; either, as in the case of Cephalus, because his private passion is well spent and he is without rancor; or because, as in the case of the old forest creature, his passion remains in control of his old God, who was worthy of it.

Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – June – 26 2008

But (they say) a certain Cephalus, the son of Deion, an

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Cephalus she bare a splendid son, strong Phaethon, a man like the gods, whom, when he was a young boy in the tender flower of glorious youth with childish thoughts, laughter-loving Aphrodite seized and caught up and made a keeper of her shrine by night, a divine spirit.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

: “I have come from Lysias the son of Cephalus, and I am going to take a walk outside the wall, for I have been sitting with him the whole morning; and our common friend Acumenus advises me to walk in the country, which he says is more invigorating than to walk in the courts.” —

Oeconomicus 2007