Plato’s Muses
The Goddesses that Endure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23133530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Penelope Murray (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | 29-46 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Cultivating the muse (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199240043.003.0002 |
| OpenAlex | W4388379082 |
| ISBN | 9780199240043 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Socrates, not known for his devotion to the Muses, begins to write poetry when he is in prison awaiting execution. In the Phaedo (6odff.) he tells his friends of a recurrent dream he has had during his life which urges him to compose and practise music (6oe6–7). He had always thought that the dream was encouraging him to do precisely what he had spent his life doing, that is ‘making music’, on the grounds that ‘philosophy is the greatest music’.
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Dream · Literature · Poetry · Prison · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · SOCRATES · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |