Plato and the Poets  

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Plato and the Poets (2011) is a book edited by Pierre Destrée and Fritz-Gregor Herrmann. Its subject is Plato's relationship to the poets.

Contents

List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Pierre Destrée and Fritz-Gregor Herrmann Chapter One. What Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Glenn W. Most Chapter Two. Poetry in Plato’s Gorgias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Fritz-Gregor Herrmann Chapter Three. Poetry As Flawed Reproduction: Possession and Mimesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Catherine Collobert Chapter Four. Plato’s Ion and the Ethics of Praise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Carlotta Capuccino Chapter Five. The Hermeneutics of Madness: Poet and Philosopher in Plato’s Ion and Phaedrus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Francisco J. Gonzalez Chapter Six. Inspiration and Inspired Poets in Plato’s Dialogues . . . . 111 Stefan Büttner Chapter Seven. Plato, Poetry and Creativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Dominic Scott Chapter Eight. Poets at the Symposium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Elizabeth Belfiore Chapter Nine. Tragedy, Women and the Family in Plato’s Republic.. 175 Penelope Murray Chapter Ten. Mimesis and Psychological Change in Republic III . . . . 195 Gabriel Richardson Lear vi contents Chapter Eleven. Poets and Mimesis in the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Jera Maruˇsicˇ Chapter Twelve. Antidotes and Incantations: Is There a Cure for Poetry in Plato’s Republic? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Stephen Halliwell Chapter Thirteen. Poetry, Thumos and Pity in the Republic . . . . . . . . . 267 Pierre Destrée Chapter Fourteen. Soul Division and Mimesis in Republic X . . . . . . . . 283 Rachel Singpurwalla Chapter Fifteen. Image-Making in Republic X and the Sophist. . . . . . . 299 Noburu Notomi Chapter Sixteen. A Transfer of Energy: Lyric Eros in Phaedrus. . . . . . 327 Elisabeth Pender Chapter Seventeen. Myth and Poetry in the Timaeus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 Gretchen Reydams-Schils Chapter Eighteen. ‘Correctness’ and Poetic Knowledge: Choric Poetry in the Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 Antony Hatzistavrou Chapter Nineteen. Legislation as a Tragedy: on Plato’s Laws VII, b–d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 Suzanne Sauvé Meyer References .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Index locorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

See also

• Plato and poetry
• The ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry
• Plato on censorship