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

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (1996)
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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

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