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The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey

By Seth Bernadete

Book information

Publisher
Inc., Rowman & Little Field Publishers
Year
2008
ISBN
0742565963, 9780742565968
LCC
2021698115
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2660528 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
xiv,180\195
Topic
Other Social Sciences\\Philosophy
Time added
2024-06-30 20:22:34
Greek Epic PoetryHomerOdysseusPlato

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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