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Aspect of Plato for Poets and Rhapsodists in the Dialogue of “Ion”

Marina Nasaina * mnassaina@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-8244-8399
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy

Open Journal for Studies in Arts, 2018, 1(1), 1-6 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsa.0101.01001n
Online Published Date: 18 July 2018

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KEY WORDS: Ion, Homer, poetry, divination, rhapsody, art, expert, divine, possessed.

ABSTRACT:
This particular paper refers to Plato’s effort in the dialogue of “Ion” to prove to the homonymous rhapsodist that his skill in rhapsodic art – and especially in Homer – is not a result of professional art and science, but is due to divine power. Socrates in this Platonic dialogue develops the theory of divine inspiration. A divine impulse occupies the poets and then the rhapsodists to “emerge out of themselves” and to become the unconscious mouthpiece of a higher power that temporarily occupies them and inspires them to interpret their poems. In fact, Ion protested in a special way – and for the first time in Plato’s work – the controversy of poetry and philosophy, aiming to make a meaningful reference to the superiority of the “crown of the sciences”.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Marina Nasaina, Parodos Agiou Adrianou 89, 21100 Nauplio, GREECE. E-mail: mnassaina@gmail.com.

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