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Plato Through Homer
Author | : Zdravko Planinc |
Publsiher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780826264503 |
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The Cambridge Guide to Homer
Author | : Corinne Ondine Pache |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2020-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1107027195 |
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From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.
The Bow and the Lyre
Author | : Seth Benardete |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2008-10-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780742565975 |
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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.
Preface to Plato
Author | : Eric A. HAVELOCK |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674038431 |
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Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought. The reason for the dominance of this tradition was technological. In a nonliterate culture, stored experience necessary to cultural stability had to be preserved as poetry in order to be memorized. Plato attacks poets, particularly Homer, as the sole source of Greek moral and technical instruction-Mr. Havelock shows how the Iliad acted as an oral encyclopedia. Under the label of mimesis, Plato condemns the poetic process of emotional identification and the necessity of presenting content as a series of specific images in a continued narrative. The second part of the book discusses the Platonic Forms as an aspect of an increasingly rational culture. Literate Greece demanded, instead of poetic discourse, a vocabulary and a sentence structure both abstract and explicit in which experience could be described normatively and analytically: in short a language of ethics and science.
Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato
Author | : Rana Saadi Liebert |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2017-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781107184442 |
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This book uses Greek poetry and Plato's philosophy to explain the appeal of tragedy and explore the non-cognitive value of aesthetic engagement.
Women s Work as Political Art
Author | : Lisa Pace Vetter |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0739110632 |
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This book shows that the metaphor of the quintessentially feminine art of weaving in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Lysistrata, and Plato's Statesman and Phaedo conveys complex and inclusive teachings about human nature and political life that address the concerns of women mor...
Plato s Rhapsody and Homer s Music
Author | : Gregory Nagy |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015056478764 |
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This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these Homeric performances. Plato's fine ear for language--in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes--picks up on a variety of authentic expressions that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once practiced their art.
Homer and the Tradition of Political Philosophy
Author | : Peter J. Ahrensdorf |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2022-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107124707 |
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Shows that Homer was a philosophic thinker who played a crucial role in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche.