DELPHI AND THE PANHELLENIC ORIGINS OF PHILOSOPHY IN PLATO'S PROTAGORAS

Near the middle of Plato's Protagoras, Socrates claims that the have often taken this claim to be absurd, in this article I suggest that Socrates uses it to decenter Athens as the "school of Greece," as depicted in setting of the Protagoras. He focuses instead on the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi. His recentering of Delphi depicts philosophy as a Panhellenic enterprise and prioritizes the sanctuary's religious and cultural importance.