Preface to Plato

Name: Preface to Plato
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ISBN: 9780674699069

ISBN-10: 0674699068

ISBN-13: 9780674699069

Edition: 1963

Authors: Eric A. Havelock, Lyndall Havelock

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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, Mr. Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought. The reason for the dominance of this tradition was technological. In a nonliterate culture, stored experience necessary to cultural stability had to be preserved as poetry in order to be memorized. Plato attacks poets, particularly Homer, as the sole source of Greek moral and technical instruction--Mr. Havelock shows how the Illiad acted as an oral encyclopedia.…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1963
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/15/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English




The Image-Thinkers



Plato On Poetry



Mimesis



Poetry As Preserved Communication



The Homeric Encyclopedia



Eric As Recorded 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 Know



The Recognition of The Known As Object



Poetry As Opinion



The Origin of The Theory of Forms



'The Supreme Music is Philosophy'