{"product_id":"the-bow-and-the-lyre-a-platonic-reading-of-the-odyssey-9780742565968","title":"The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Seth Benardete\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\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","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47586112766103,"sku":"9780742565968","price":4836.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780742565968.webp?v=1774962694","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-bow-and-the-lyre-a-platonic-reading-of-the-odyssey-9780742565968","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}