Preface to Plato

Eric Havelock

    PART ONE: The Image-Thinkers
    1. Plato On Poetry
    2. Mimesis
    3. Poetry as Preserved Communication
    4. The Homeric Encyclopedia
    5. Eric as Recorded as Record Versus Epic as Narrative
    6. Hesiod on Poetry
    7. The Oral Sources of the Hellenic Intelligence
    8. The Homeric State of Mind
    9. The Psychology of the Poetic Performance
    10. The Content and Quality of the Poetised Statement

    PART TWO: The Necessity of Platonism
    11. Psyche or the Separation of the Knower From The Know
    12. The Recognition of the Known as Object
    13. Poetry as Opinion
    14. The Origin of the Theory of Forms
    15. 'The Supreme Music is Philosophy'

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Eric A. Havelock was Sterling Professor of Classics, Emeritus, Yale University.