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Preface to Plato

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Description for Preface to Plato Paperback. 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 tradition in contemporary Greek thought. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 358.

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 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
Series
Loeb Classical Library
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674699069
SKU
V9780674699069
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About Eric A. Havelock
Eric A. Havelock was Sterling Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at Yale University.

Reviews for Preface to Plato
This book makes a major contribution…will offer the reader many hours of stimulating thought and a powerful challenge to reexamine some basic assumptions about the early Greek mind.
The Classical Bulletin
The frontiers of several fields of research meet in this rich and germinal study. Professor Havelock is concerned with Greek epic poetry and Plato’s attack on it, ... Read more

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