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...

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1. Verfasser:	Havelock, Eric A. (Eric Alfred), 1903-1988
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1963.
Schriftenreihe:	History of the Greek mind ; v. 1.
Schlagworte:	Plato. Platon. Plato Flaemmings, Friederich Philosophy, Ancient. Greek poetry > History and criticism. Philosophie ancienne. Poésie grecque > Histoire et critique. PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical. LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry. Greek poetry Philosophy, Ancient Filosofie. Filosofía antigua. Ancient philosophy. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Zusammenfassung:	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. Under the label of mimesis, Plato condemns the poetic process of emotional identification and the necessity of presenting content as a series of specific images in a continued narrative. The second part of the book discusses the Platonic Forms as an aspect of an increasingly rational culture. Literate Greece demanded, instead of poetic discourse, a vocabulary and a sentence structure both abstract and explicit in which experience could be described normatively and analytically: in short a language of ethics and science.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages)
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-315).
ISBN:	9780674038431 0674038436 0674699068 9780674699069