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Platos ion6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Illustration by Valerie Woelfel, with refinements by Jill Curry Robbins. ![]() ![]() Vatican Museums, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, 16570. To be contrasted is what happens in Iliad 1, where the tears of the old father Chryses are harshly disrespected by Agamemnon.Īttic red-figure neck-amphora: Departure of Hector, detail, Priam in tears. The tears of the old father Priam, pictured here at the moment of Hector’s final farewell to his parents, will in the end be respected by Achilles in Iliad 24. And it is easier to discredit such imitation when you hear a rhapsode paraphrase Homer in prose. For Plato, mimesis is not a re-enactment as it is for rhapsodes: it is mere imitation. ![]()
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