Plato’s Four Muses - The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy

Andrea Capra reconstructs Plato's authorial self-portrait through a fresh reading of the Phaedrus. Capra maintains that Socrates's conversion to "demotic" music in the Phaedo closely parallels the Phaedrus and is apologetic in character, since Socrates was held responsible for dismissing traditional mousike.

Summary

Andrea Capra reconstructs Plato’s authorial self-portrait through a fresh reading of the Phaedrus. Capra maintains that Socrates’s conversion to “demotic” music in the Phaedo closely parallels the Phaedrus and is apologetic in character, since Socrates was held responsible for dismissing traditional mousikê.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Capra, Andrea Capra
• Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2014
• EAN: 9780674417229
• ISBN: 978-0-674-41722-9
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Illustrations: 4 line illustrations
• Series: Hellenic Studies Series; Hellenic Studies; Hellenic Studies Series; Hellenic Studies (HUP)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries