Abstract

PICON CASAS, Javier. Platón, Aristóteles y la narrativa histórica. Synthesis (La Plata) [online]. 2013, vol.20, pp.53-70. ISSN 0328-1205.

One of the most showy questions about the works of Plato and Aristotle rests on them silence brings over of the history. They read and criticized physicists, philosophers, mathematicians, biologists, poets, rhetorical, political, etc. Nevertheless, their appointments about the historians of that moment would fit in a sheet of paper. In this brief article we try to offer an explanation about such an omission. Likewise, we are useful to offer a reason of the Menexenus and to contribute a confirmation of the reasons that L. Edelstein led to questioning the genuineness of seventh and eighth letters attributed to Plato.

Keywords : Aristotle; Plato; Thucydides; Menexenus; History; Biography.