Summary
Plato: Ion, Feast, Phaedrus
The new edition of Đurić's translation of three of Plato's dialogues (Ion, Feast and Phaedrus) brings today's reader the opportunity to experience the joy of reading that he heard older people talk about. The Feast, along with Socrates' defense, is probably Plato's most successful literary work, and Ion and Phaedrus are also interesting in this respect. How could they not be, when they speak, respectively, about the topics of inspiration, love and beauty. The subtitle of Ione, however, states that it is a dialogue about the Iliad, a poem at the beginning of Greek and European literature, attributed to Homer. But the main issue of the dialogue is the question of poetic inspiration, and here Plato formulates the first comprehensive theory of inspiration in Western culture. The subtitles Feast (about love) and Phaedra (about beauty) correspond to what is really unfolding before the eyes and soul of the reader.
From the foreword by Saša Radojčić
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