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

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 216

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Release: December 26, 1996

ISBN: 0847683672

ISBN 13: 9780847683673

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

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 216

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Release: December 26, 1996

ISBN: 0847683672

ISBN 13: 9780847683673

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