Author: BENARDETE, SETH
Title: The Bow and the Lyre a Platonic Reading of the Odyssey
Description: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 1996. Hardcover. ISBN: 0847683672. Slight fading to DJ spine. ; In this exciting new interpretation of the "Odyssey", renowed 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. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 194 pages. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0847683672 Odyssey Homeric Epic Homer Greek Literature Greek Epic Plato Philosophers Philosophy


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