The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey by Seth Benardete

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

Seth Benardete

216 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction classics philosophy challenging informative medium-paced

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In this exciting new interpretation of the Odyssey, renowned scholar 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 ...

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