rhapsode

• “I do have some sympathy with the romance of Longinus's heroic ideal though, his notion of the rhapsode as raptor.”

  On the Sublime

• “Socrates discusses with the title character the question of whether the rhapsode, a professional performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “At the Venice Biennale he encounters "jet-lagged, hectic miens," while El Greco is called "a pictorial rhapsode of militant piety.”

  An Eye on the Tremors

• “We may, I believe, safely compare the history of The Nights with the so-called Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, a collection of immortal ballads and old Epic formulæ and verses traditionally handed down from rhapsode to rhapsode, incorporated in a slowly-increasing body of poetry and finally welded together about the age of Pericles.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Homer analogously draws poetic power from his Muse and attracts a rhapsode by means of borrowed power.”

  Plato's Aesthetics

• “As a rhapsode Ion travels from one Greek city to another reciting and explicating episodes from Homer.”

  Plato's Aesthetics

• “In Ion's case Socrates specifies that the expertise for a rhapsode includes the ability to interpret poetry (530c).”

  Plato's Aesthetics

• “But the Xenophanes who speaks to us in the surviving fragments is a combination of rhapsode, social critic, religious teacher, and keen student of nature. Euripides ”

  Xenophanes

• “He was a travelling rhapsode who criticised the stories about the gods told by the poets, and he defended a novel conception of the divine nature.”

  Xenophanes

• “In Socrates 'unforgettable simile, the relationship of the god to poet to rhapsode to audience is like a magnetized sequence of links in a chain, each ring of which sticks to the next thanks to the power of the divine magnet at the start”

  Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry

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