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Plato Through Homer: Poetry and Philosophy in the Cosmological Dialogues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2005

Eric Buzzetti
Eric Buzzetti
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Concordia University
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Plato Through Homer: Poetry and Philosophy in the Cosmological Dialogues, Zdravko Planinc, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003, pp. xii, 134

Professor Planinc analyzes in this monograph three of Plato's dialogues: the Timaeus, the Critias and the Phaedrus. His primary aim is to show that their structure and poetic imagery is modelled after that of important episodes of Homer's Odyssey. In Planinc's words, Plato consciously “refigures” the “literary tropes” of the Odyssey, and this fact is of central importance to interpreting these dialogues properly (13).

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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 775 - 777
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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