LEADER 03437nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910778568503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03843-6 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674038431 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805699 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000226383 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11200475 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000226383 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10257901 035 $a(PQKB)10152301 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300764 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331352 035 $a(DE-B1597)574609 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674038431 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300764 035 $a(OCoLC)923116764 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805699 100 $a19830329d1963 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPreface to Plato$b[electronic resource] /$fEric A. Havelock 210 $aCambridge, MA $cThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press$d1963 215 $axiv, 328 p. ;$d21 cm 311 $a0-674-69900-9 311 $a0-674-69906-8 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tComents -- $tThe Image- Thinkers -- $tPlato on Poetry -- $tMimesis -- $tPoetry as Preserved Communication -- $tThe Homeric Encyclopedia1 -- $tEpic as Record versus Epic as Narrative -- $tHesiod on Poetry -- $tThe Oral Sources of the Hellenic Intelligence -- $tThe Homeric State of Mind -- $tThe Psychology of the Poetic Performance -- $tThe Content and Quality of the Poetised Statement -- $tThe Necessity Of Platonism -- $tPsyche or the Separation of the Knower from the Known -- $tThe Recognition of the Known as 0 bject -- $tPoetry as Opinion -- $tThe Origin of the Theory of Forms -- $t'The Supreme Music is Philosophy' 330 $aPlato?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, Eric 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 Iliad 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. 606 $aPhilosophy, Ancient 606 $aGreek poetry$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aPhilosophy, Ancient. 615 0$aGreek poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a184 700 $aHavelock$b Eric Alfred$0187400 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778568503321 996 $aPreface to Plato$923855 997 $aUNINA