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Contents 6 List of Contributors 8 Acknowledgments 10 Note 12 Introduction 14 1. What Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry? 24 2. Poetry in Plato's Gorgias 44 3. Poetry as Flawed Reproduction: Possession and Mimesis 64 4. Plato's Ion and the Ethics of Praise 86 5. The Hermeneutics of Madness: Poet and Philosopher in Plato's Ion and Phaedrus 116 6. Inspiration and Inspired Poets in Plato's Dialogues 134 7. Poetry and Creativity 154 8. Poets at the Symposium 178 9. Tragedy, Women and the Family in Plato's Republic 198 10. Mimesis and Psychological Change in Republic III 218 11. Poets and Mimesis in the Republic 240 12. Antidotes and Incantations: Is There a Cure for Poetry in Plato's Republic? 264 13. Thumos, and Pity in the Republic 290 14. Soul Division and Mimesis in Republic X 306 15. Image-Making in Republic X and the Sophist: Plato's Criticism of the Poet and the Sophist 322 16. A Transfer of Energy: Lyric Eros in Phaedrus 350 17. Myth and Poetry in the Timaeus 372 18. 'Correctness' and Poetic Knowledge: Choric Poetry in the Laws 384 19. Legislation as a Tragedy: On Plato's Laws VII, 817B-D 410 References 426 Index locorum 448

Author

Destrée, Pierre, Herrmann, Fritz-Gregor

Published

2011

Language

EN