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Preface to Plato.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1963Copyright date: ©1963Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674038431
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Preface to PlatoDDC classification:
  • 808.1/092/4
LOC classification:
  • B398.P6H3 1963
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Part One: The Image-Thinkers -- I. Plato on Poetry -- II. Mimesis -- III. Poetry as Preserved Communication -- IV. The Homeric Encyclopedia -- V. Epic as Record versus Epic as Narrative -- VI. Hesiod on Poetry -- VII. The Oral Sources of the Hellenic Intelligence -- VIII. The Homeric State of Mind -- IX. The Psychology of the Poetic Performance -- X. The Content and Quality of the Poetised Statement -- Part Two: The Necessity of Platonism -- XI. Psyche or the Separation of the Knower from the Known -- XII. The Recognition of the Known as Object -- XIII. Poetry as Opinion -- XIV. The Origin of the Theory of Forms -- XV. 'The Supreme Music is Philosophy'.
Summary: Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought.
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Intro -- Contents -- Part One: The Image-Thinkers -- I. Plato on Poetry -- II. Mimesis -- III. Poetry as Preserved Communication -- IV. The Homeric Encyclopedia -- V. Epic as Record versus Epic as Narrative -- VI. Hesiod on Poetry -- VII. The Oral Sources of the Hellenic Intelligence -- VIII. The Homeric State of Mind -- IX. The Psychology of the Poetic Performance -- X. The Content and Quality of the Poetised Statement -- Part Two: The Necessity of Platonism -- XI. Psyche or the Separation of the Knower from the Known -- XII. The Recognition of the Known as Object -- XIII. Poetry as Opinion -- XIV. The Origin of the Theory of Forms -- XV. 'The Supreme Music is Philosophy'.

Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought.

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