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When Hesiod speaks of the Muses as the daughters of Memory , that is not genuine myth . It is allegory — a thought that might be expressed in prose , but is more or less consciously disguised in language that is no longer meant ...
When Hesiod speaks of the Muses as the daughters of Memory , that is not genuine myth . It is allegory — a thought that might be expressed in prose , but is more or less consciously disguised in language that is no longer meant ...
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Plato naturally speaks of the rule of the philosopher , Virgil speaks of the reign of Augustus , as a return to the lost happiness of the past : redeunt Saturnia regna . These cases illustrate the way in which not only physical and ...
Plato naturally speaks of the rule of the philosopher , Virgil speaks of the reign of Augustus , as a return to the lost happiness of the past : redeunt Saturnia regna . These cases illustrate the way in which not only physical and ...
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Socrates on his arrival , replying to the poet's welcome , speaks of his own wisdom as ' a sorry thing , questionable , like a dream ; but you are ' young ...
Socrates on his arrival , replying to the poet's welcome , speaks of his own wisdom as ' a sorry thing , questionable , like a dream ; but you are ' young ...
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Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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