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

by Seth Benardete

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742565963
• ISBN13: 9780742565968
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"