Plato and the Poets

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