1. Similarly, in Plato, Protogoras, 347c–e, Socrates insists that ‘truly good’ people should be able to entertain one another at parties.

2. This was a standard, if vague, sophistic claim.

3. Despite the fact that the world had changed considerably since Homer’s time, he was still taken to be the fount of all wisdom, and any aducated person would have been able to quote at least parts of the poems.

4. See p. 181, n. 2.