The Bow and the Lyre
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Author
Publication
2010 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Lanham, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
44,250 words, Guess
Page Count
177 pages
Physical Format
EBook
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebowlyreplatonicr00bena_555
- ISBN-139780742565975
- ISBN-100742565971
- OverDriveE8787449-6B8F-4EAA-AD20-78B211D27676
- OCLC Control Number319070757
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780742565975
- Open LibraryOL24289895M
Classifications
- LCCPA4037.B46 2008
Description
In this exciting interpretation of the Odyssey, the late renowned scholar Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings. In light of this possibility, Bernardete works back and forth from Homer to Plato to examine the relation between wisdom and justice and tries to recover an original understanding of philosophy that Plato, too, recovered by reflecting on the wisdom of the poet. At stake in his argument is no less than the history of philosophy and the ancient understanding of poetry. The Bow and the Lyre is a book that every classicist and historian of philosophy should have.
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