The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey. Seth Benardete

The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey



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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Language: English
Page: 177
ISBN: 0742565963, 9780742565968

Review

Guided by the fundamental problems opened up through his studies of the Platonic dialogues, Seth Benardete unravels the intertwined threads of Homer's Odyssey and finds at its core the choice Odysseus makes to be human--to return home rather than accept Calypso's offer of immortality. This choice reflects the understanding Odysseus has of his fate, on which the Olympian gods have in turn imposed a design of their own, assigning Odysseus a part in their plan of withdrawal. Once home, Odysseus strings his bow and makes it sing, Homer tells us, as easily as a bard his lyre; but whether the apparent fusion of rationality with spiritedness in the soul of Odysseus allows him to share Homer's perspective is the Platonic question that animates Benardete's penetrating and illuminating reading of the Odyssey. (Burger, Ronna )

The Bow and the Lyre is a work of matchless erudition and insight. (Mansfield, Harvey C. )

Bernardete's procedure frees him to take seriously the problems of the surface on their own terms. (Martin Sitte Albert E. Gunn And Staff )

The Bow and the Lyre is a treasure of startling observations, but it is also much more. His book is a remarkable account of the Odyssey . . . There is really nothing else like it in print. (Davis, Michael )

About the Author

Seth Benardete was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author of The Being of the Beautiful, The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy, Socrates' Second Sailing, and The Tragedy and Comedy of Life.



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