Rhapsode

and professional rhapsode Ion dives into the ideas of whether or not Ion’s ability to repeat works of Homer to be from his knowledge of the work or by the inspiration to brought to him. The earliest issue Socrates brings to Ion is his limitation to reciting Homer. Ion admits that when anyone…

It is likely that Homer originated from Western Asia Minor. He was an bard, who in the custom, spoke orally, and so he was a rhapsode. Rhapsodes performed before audiences in real time. And like other rhapsodes, he played a vital role in terms of history and the entertainment world. Though there is the belief that Homer had no sight (was blind), it was however, more likely that it was based off how the culture of the Greeks often used it as a metaphor for exceptional perception. Homer’s works…

uses them to get his point across. The one premise that I would refute says “Poetry does not have the same discipline throughout (532d2)”, because I believe that poetry is the discipline of combining the art of language with human reality. All poets and every poem does this same thing so it does have the same discipline throughout therefore it is a subject. However, Socrates strengthens his argument with his examples on the charioteer, the fisherman, and the diviner (537c3, 538d6, 539d3). He…

Reasons one. When Odysseus sets off on his journey to go to war he was a king of all and he helped when he was needed Reason two. soon the war broke out and went to help support the troops, but after the war was done, we were separated from the rest of his men and taken somewhere else and at the time of need his men needed a leader to get away from the Cyclops so he rose to the challenge Reason three. He had been still loyal to one person yet he did things he regretted just to get home like…

stands out the most in Clouds and The Republic is Socrates’ apparent atheism. In some of the first lines of dialogue we see from Socrates’ character in Clouds, he denounces “the gods” that Strepsiades swears by, saying, “they are not legal tender here” (Clouds, scene III, lines 245-247). The cave allegory might seem to one at first glance to represent those whose thoughts are imprisoned by way of higher beings who kept them “fettered” physically and emotionally (e.g. the guardians or the gods or…