Synopsis
Socrates discusses with Ion the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession.
It is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues.
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett (1817 – 1893) was an English writer and classical scholar. He was an administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, theologian, an Anglican cleric, and a translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford.
In addition to the superb translation, reading a Benjamin Jowett Introduction has been likened to attending a first rate lecture
Plato (c.428 – 348BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
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