like whether poetry, as Plato claims, is too beautiful, alluring and potentially deceptive to be used in what people like to ...

Plato, in the fourth century B.C., amazingly coincided with ... would speak of the physical world as "a forest of symbols" whose meaning we have forgotten but that the poet can rediscover by means of ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

Like Xenophon’s earlier work, Plato’s is also set at the dinner party of a famous Athenian poet. One of the guests present, Aristodemus, is sometimes regarded as the token akletos—but ...

HYDERABAD : Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, once aptly remarked, “Poetry is nearer to the vital truth than history.” With the passage of time, our modes of expression have evolved from parchment ...

Socrates, Plato tells us, heard the song of a swan on ... a fitting entombment that turns the tattered phrase "poetry in motion" into a truly lyrical trope. The swan, Russian poet Anna Akhmatova ...

Technology is something that both enhances and encumbers our lives. This contrast leaves us feeling deeply ambivalent and ...

Australian Catholic University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. It was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 BCE), has been drawn into the ...

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...

Essays on Plato in Western Greece with a new translation of the Seventh Letter by Jonah Radding OPEN ACCESS 2019 The Poetry in Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Christos C. Evangeliou OPEN ACCESS 2021 ...

The poet Michael Longley has said that the "complexities ... them with more simple-minded writing," he said. "I think it was Plato who said 'kalepa ta kala' - that beautiful things are difficult." ...