For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means? All this is greatly to be envied. And no man can be a rhapsode who does not understand the meaning of the poet. Then, again, you are obliged to be continually in the company of many good poets and especially of Homer, who is the best and most divine of them and to understand him, and not merely learn his words by rote, is a thing greatly to be envied. Soc.: I often envy the profession of a rhapsode, Ion for you have always to wear fine clothes, and to look as beautiful as you can is a part of your art. Soc.: Well done and I hope that you will do the same for us at the Panathenaea. Ion: I obtained the first prize of all, Socrates. Soc.: And were you one of the competitors-and did you succeed? Publication date 1912 Topics MacGregor, John Marshall, 1879-1936 Publisher Cambridge Eng. Ion: O yes and of all sorts of musical performers.
Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook. Soc.: And do the Epidaurians have contests of rhapsodes at the festival? Listen to Platos Ion by Plato available from Rakuten Kobo. As the dialogue proceeds, the nature of human creativity emerges as a mysterious process and an unsolved puzzle. Ion: No, Socrates but from Epidaurus, where I attended the festival of Asclepius. In Platos Ion & Meno, Socrates questions Ion, an actor who just won a major prize, about his ability to interpret the epic poetry of Homer. Are you from your native city of Ephesus? In fact, apart from defining the nature of philosophy, one of the most urgent tasks that Plato has to deal with in his dialogues is making a defence of philosophy as the best way of life, depicting it as the most sensible and natural.Socrates: Welcome, Ion. that it is caused by the wrong opinions of those who are not philosophers. He suggested that the philosopher's strangeness is not due to a real deviation from the behaviour that, by nature, is most suitable for humans, but the opposite, i.e. Socrates initiates a conversation with Ion, a successful. The most famous passage in Ion is a long speech by. It is also potentially his least philosophically significant. Nevertheless, his Ion translation conveys wit and irony the dialogue is natural as well as elevated and the ideas come across clearly. proposal, the Academic gave continuity to the image of the philosopher as a crazy person. Shelley's translation of Ion is not a masterpiece in its own right, as are his translations of Plato's Banquet or of the Homeric hymn, To Mercury.
Regarding his thinking and his practical. Those who devote themselves to philosophy are stigmatized as odd people, as many classical texts show. As it constitutes a novelty within the polis, it is not just regarded with suspicion from its very beginning, but it is also the target of severe criticism. Philosophy is an historical product, which is definitively consolidated with Plato and Aristotle.
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