Archaeology of the Soul: Platonic Readings of Ancient Poetry and Philosophy

Seth Benardete

Role: Author

Benardete’s research was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Earhart Foundation, and the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung in Munich. He received an honorary degree from Adelphi University.

Collection of essays and lectures which includes: “Socrates and Plato: The Dialectics of Eros” “Derrida and Plato.” Lecture delivered at NYU, in a series “Derrida and his Non-Contemporaries,” October 19, 2000. “Plato’s Parmenides: A Sketch” “The Plan of Odysseus and the Plot of the Philoctetes” “Freedom, Grace and Necessity” “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: The Education of the Choru” “On Reading Pindar Platonically” “Aeneid” “Horace C.I.xv”

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