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Bryn Mawr Commentaries have been admired and used by Greek and Latin teachers at every level for twenty years. They provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of... Read Full Overview

An award-winning public reader of Homer discusses poetry and the nature of performance with the probing and insightful Socrates in Plato's immortal dialogue.

Ion, a professional rhapsode, performer of dramatic recitations of Homer and lecturer on poetry, has... Read Full Overview

On the basis of a fresh collation of the four primary manuscripts, this book presents a revised text of Plato's Ion, with full apparatus criticus. The commentary has a strong linguistic orientation; it includes discussions of Platonic vocabulary. Linguistic considerations... Read Full Overview

Platon, dans l'Ion, met en scene la rencontre entre Socrate et un rhapsode couronne de succes pour ses recitations d'Homere. Nait alors l'enquete platonicienne comme une philosophie des pratiques dont la methode consiste a proposer a un praticien differentes representations... Read Full Overview

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Socrates figures in all of these, and they are considered the most faithful representations of the historical Socrates; hence they are also called the Socratic dialogues. Most of... Read Full Overview

The Classic Greek Philosopher Plato is one of the most important and recognized western philosophers to exert influence in both historic and modern foundations of politics, ethics, metaphysics and epistemology. His work lay the foundation of western philosophy and science. We... Read Full Overview

An award-winning public reader of Homer discusses poetry and the nature of performance with the probing and insightful Socrates in Plato's immortal dialogue.

Ion, a professional rhapsode, performer of dramatic recitations of Homer and lecturer on poetry, has... Read Full Overview

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In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his... Read Full Overview

Keine ausf hrliche Beschreibung f r "Ion" verf gbar.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession. It is... Read Full Overview

The Ion is the shortest, or nearly the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authenticated by any early external testimony. The grace and beauty of this little work supply the only, and perhaps a sufficient, proof of its genuineness. The plan... Read Full Overview

We added more: annotationtranslationfootnotes and more.In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill... Read Full Overview

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Socrates figures in all of these, and they are considered the most faithful representations of the historical Socrates; hence they are also called the Socratic dialogues. Most of... Read Full Overview

I often envy the profession of a rhapsode, Ion; for you have always to wear fine clothes, and to look as beautiful as you can is a part of your art. Then, again, you are obliged to be continually in the company of many good poets; and especially of Homer, who is the best and... Read Full Overview

Ion is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues. In it, Socrates talks to Ion, who lectures on Homer, about whether a rhapsode (someone who performs poetry) does so based on skill or due to divine possession.