The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey by Benardete, Seth

The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780742565968)

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The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey by Benardete, Seth

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

$45.00
The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey by Benardete, Seth

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

$45.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Seth Benardete
ISBN-10: 0742565963
ISBN-13: 9780742565968
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2008
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.60d
By Seth Benardete
By Seth Benardete
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Seth Benardete was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author of The Being of the Beautiful, The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy, Socrates' Second Sailing, and The Tragedy and Comedy of Life.

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