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

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

Name: The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey
ISBN: 9780742565968

Seth Benardete

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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.

Categories:

Poetry - American Poetry

Year:

2008

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Language:

english

Pages:

177

ISBN 10:

0742565963