{"product_id":"the-bow-and-the-lyre-a-platonic-reading-of-the-odyssey-paperback-1","title":"The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSeth Benardete\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this exciting interpretation of the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, the late renowned scholar Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings. In light of this possibility, Bernardete works back and forth from Homer to Plato to examine the relation between wisdom and justice and tries to recover an original understanding of philosophy that Plato, too, recovered by reflecting on the wisdom of the poet. At stake in his argument is no less than the history of philosophy and the ancient understanding of poetry. \u003ci\u003eThe Bow and the Lyre\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that every classicist and historian of philosophy should have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeth Benardete\u003c\/b\u003e was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Being of the Beautiful, The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy, Socrates' Second Sailing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Tragedy and Comedy of Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45849051168965,"sku":"9780742565968","price":98.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/s6qyruICHY9780742565968.webp?v=1781279086","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-bow-and-the-lyre-a-platonic-reading-of-the-odyssey-paperback-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}