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In this interpretation of the Odyssey, Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings.

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    • Title: The Bow and the Lyre by Seth Benardete
    • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
    • Print ISBN: 9780742565968, 0742565963
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    • Edition: 2008
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    • Title: The Bow and the Lyre by Benardete, Seth
    • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
    • Print ISBN: 9780847683673, 0847683672
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    • Edition: 1996
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