%0 Unpublished Work %1 _preface_ %A Mioni, Anthony J. %D 1996 %K havelock, plato, platon %T Preface to Plato Review %U http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/ptop.html %X This book may be seen as a preface to Plato in two ways: The first is that it prepares us for reading Plato by explaining the meaning of Plato's writings; the second is that it prepares for reading Plato by explaining the historical developments that lead up to and influenced Plato. In it, Eric Havelock explains Plato's battle with the poets for control over Greek paideia. Plato criticizes poetry as being restricted to doxa, or opinion, and proposes to replace this traditional paideia with his own based on logos.

@unpublished{_preface_, abstract = {This book may be seen as a preface to Plato in two ways: The first is that it prepares us for reading Plato by explaining the meaning of Plato's writings; the second is that it prepares for reading Plato by explaining the historical developments that lead up to and influenced Plato. In it, Eric Havelock explains Plato's battle with the poets for control over Greek paideia. Plato criticizes poetry as being restricted to doxa, or opinion, and proposes to replace this traditional paideia with his own based on logos.}, added-at = {2007-11-29T18:02:02.000+0100}, author = {Mioni, Anthony J.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23cbc21a14c98d1ca75b8791bdbebb6f4/bibliothecaire}, citeulike-article-id = {1179284}, interhash = {152f56c2a4a0f1e9ce7eb4f053a50bd3}, intrahash = {3cbc21a14c98d1ca75b8791bdbebb6f4}, keywords = {havelock, plato, platon}, month = {November}, priority = {0}, timestamp = {2007-11-29T18:02:10.000+0100}, title = {Preface to Plato Review}, url = {http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/ptop.html}, year = 1996 }