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

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
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 10/14/2008
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780742565968