The Musical Structure of Plato's Dialogues

by J.B. Kennedy

J. B. Kennedy argues that Plato's dialogues have an unsuspected musical structure and use symbols to encode Pythagorean doctrines. The followers of Pythagoras famously thought that the cosmos had a hidden musical structure and that wise philosophers would be able to hear this harmony of the spheres. Kennedy shows that Plato gave his dialogues a similar, hidden musical structure. He divided each dialogue into twelve parts and inserted symbols at each...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184465267X
• ISBN13: 9781844652679
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"