The bow and the lyre
a Platonic reading of the Odyssey
by Seth Benardete
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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The Bow and the Lyre
2010, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
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Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey
2008, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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