Preface to Plato /

Preface to Plato / / Eric A. Havelock.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Havelock, Eric A.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1963
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Coments
  • The Image- Thinkers
  • Plato on Poetry
  • Mimesis
  • Poetry as Preserved Communication
  • The Homeric Encyclopedia1
  • Epic as Record versus Epic as Narrative
  • Hesiod on Poetry
  • The Oral Sources of the Hellenic Intelligence
  • The Homeric State of Mind
  • The Psychology of the Poetic Performance
  • The Content and Quality of the Poetised Statement
  • The Necessity Of Platonism
  • Psyche or the Separation of the Knower from the Known
  • The Recognition of the Known as 0 bject
  • Poetry as Opinion
  • The Origin of the Theory of Forms
  • 'The Supreme Music is Philosophy'

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