The Bow and the Lyre
| By: | Benardete, Seth |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Print ISBN: | 9780847683673 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780847683673 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.