How Long to Read Preface to Plato

How Long Does it Take to Read Preface to Plato?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 47 minutes to read Preface to Plato by Eric A. Havelock

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Plato’s frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato’s hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought. The reason for the dominance of this tradition was technological. In a nonliterate culture, stored experience necessary to cultural stability had to be preserved as poetry in order to be memorized. Plato attacks poets, particularly Homer, as the sole source of Greek moral and technical instruction—Mr. Havelock shows how the Iliad acted as an oral encyclopedia. Under the label of mimesis, Plato condemns the poetic process of emotional identification and the necessity of presenting content as a series of specific images in a continued narrative. The second part of the book discusses the Platonic Forms as an aspect of an increasingly rational culture. Literate Greece demanded, instead of poetic discourse, a vocabulary and a sentence structure both abstract and explicit in which experience could be described normatively and analytically: in short a language of ethics and science.

How long is Preface to Plato?

Preface to Plato by Eric A. Havelock is 343 pages long, and a total of 86,779 words.

This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 106% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Preface to Plato Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 54 minutes to read Preface to Plato aloud.

What Reading Level is Preface to Plato?

Preface to Plato is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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