Ion

Plato

• Essays
• Book language: English
• 20 pages

Plato's Ion is a short Socratic dialogue between Socrates and the rhapsode Ion, who boasts of his skill in reciting Homer. Their conversation asks whether poets and rhapsodes perform by knowledge or by divine inspiration. It is a graceful, witty piece, worth hearing for Socrates' irony and Ion's childlike enthusiasm.

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