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

By Seth Benardete

Book information

Publisher
Inc., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2008
ISBN
0742565963, 9780742565968
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1342806 bytes)
Pages
177\195
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this interpretation of the Odyssey, 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.

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