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- Title
Lack of Technē and the Instability of Poetry in Plato's Ion.
- Authors
HABASH, NICOLAS LEMA
- Abstract
In Plato's Ion, Socrates' cross-examination of the rhapsode Ion reveals that poetry--considered as an activity encompassing rhapsodic performers and poetry-makers--is not a technical field. Furthermore, the cross-examination shows that the identity of rhapsodes and poets, much like rhetoricians and sophists, is unstable and in perpetual transformation. Insofar as their identity cannot be attached to any techne¯, their capacity for performing a specific function and for being allocated a stable site in the social sphere is jeopardized. Socrates may reveal the instability of poets and rhapsodes, but this forcefully leads to an inability to decide regarding their social position.
- Subjects
ION (Book : Plato); PLATO, 428-347 B.C.; GREEK poetry; SOCRATES, ca. 469-399 B.C.; RHETORICIANS; SOPHISTS (Greek philosophy); RHAPSODISTS
- Publication
Classical World, 2017, Vol 110, Issue 4, p491
- ISSN
0009-8418
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/clw.2017.0040