12 Poets as Philosophers and Philosophers as Poets

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. From Logos and Muthos to . . . 1
6. Xenia, Hiketeia, and the Homeric Language of Morals 17
7. The Muses’ Faithful Servant 55
8. How Philosophy is Rooted in Tradition 79
9. Muthos and Logos on New Year’s Day 95
10. Tragic Values in Homer and Sophocles 135
11. Sketches of Oedipus in Sophocles’s Play about Tyranny 165
12. Helen and the Divine Defense 197
13. The Hero and the Saint 223
14. Myth and Argument in Glaucon’s account of Gyges’s Ring and Adeimantus’s Use of Poetry 263
15. Myth Inside the Walls 279
16. Priam’s Despair and Courage 297
17. Poets as Philosophers and Philosophers as Poets 319
18. Bibliography 335
19. About the Contributors 355
20. Index 359