title: Plato on Poetry: Ion; Republic 376e-398b9; Republic 595-608b10 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
author: Penelope Murray
description: "The value of Murray's book...lies above all in the encouragement which it gives those able to read Plato in the original to undertake a concentrated and connected reconsideration of the literary details of the three central Platonic texts on poetry. Her commentary...is consistently sensitive, reliable, and balanced in its judgements...anyone who wants to get close to the fine grain of Plato's arguments in these three important texts will be helped as well as stimulated by the information and guidance offered by Murray's book." International Journal of the Classical Tradition
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  **POETICS BEFORE PLATO**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **POETICS BEFORE PLATO**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **INTERPRETATION AND AUTHORITY** **IN EARLY GREEK THEORIES OF POETRY**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **_Grace M. Ledbetter_**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
  
  
  PRINCETON AND OXFORD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2003 by Princeton University Press  
  Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,  
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  _Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Ledbetter, Grace M., 1965–  
  Poetics before Plato : interpretation and authority in early Greek
  
  
  theories of poetry / Grace M. Ledbetter.
  
  
    
  p.cm.  
  Includes bibliographical references and index.  
  eISBN: 978-1-40082-528-8  
  1\. Greek poetry—History and criticism—Theory, etc. 2. Auth