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

By Seth Benardete

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2008
ISBN
0742565963, 9780742565968, 0847683672, 9780847683673
LCC
PA4037 .B42 1997
Google Books ID
2Vi20hOC8TkC
Open Library ID
OL994117M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1008 kB (1032683 bytes)
Pages
195\195
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

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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