Plato Poetry 376E 398B9 595 608B10 Cambridge

Plato Poetry 376e 398b9 595 608b10 Cambridge

This is a commentary on chosen texts of Plato concerned with poetry: the Ion and applicable segmentations of the Republic. It is the firstborn commentary to present these texts together in one volume, and the basi in English on Republic 2 and 3 and Ion for almost 100 years. The introduction sets Plato’s views in their Greek context and outlines their influence on later aesthetic thought. An important feature of the commentary is it is exploration of the ambivalence of Plato’s pronouncements through an analysis of his own skill as a writer.

• Amazon Sales Rank: #760516 in Books
• Published on: 1996-03-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .67″ h x 4.89″ w x 7.32″ l, .63 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 246 pages

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
For the sake of philosophy, Plato would ban poetry
By Michael A Neulander
I read this book for a graduate seminar on the philosophy of art. Plato in his dialogues “Ion, Symposium, and The Republic” was very concerned by the kinds of values presented in Greek poetry. By values, he meant proper and improper ways of acting, behaving, feeling, and thinking and ways of living. Plato thought poets and Homer were educating Greeks with bad values. Especially since Homeric epics were the primary vehicle used for educating the youth language and cultural notions, thus Plato hated this. This was an important battle for Plato, because of poetry’s bad teachings; he was trying to contest the status of Greek poetry in the culture.

1 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
must know Greek for this commentary edition
By A. Groves
Nice text but the commentary will abruptly and frequently interupt itself with a Greek word and expect that you know it.

This is normal if you read plenty of books that scrutinize translation, but the word is usually explained, French or German, etc. For some reason the “commentary” does not provide the translation of the word it describes. If it did I would not be returning it.

For instance: “He describes the vital link between poetry as hhurjdofds, its significance in tuyrugkjhl. This is important because gjhahu means what you needed to know but wont be told here”.

Not a working mans Ion. Be advised.

Intro is well written, Greek language version of Plato, but no complete, English translation of featured works, which is unfortunate. If it had an English translation of the work, I’d keep it.

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