Knowledge or Divine Mania to the Work of Rhapsodists in Ion of Platon

What is poetry? A conscious creation of the poet or divine inspiration? Starting with this question, Socrates in the Platonic dialogue of Ion develops the theory of divine inspiration in order to prove to the homonymous rhapsodist that his skill in rhapsodic art - and especially in Homer - is not the result of professional art and science but is due to divine power. A divine impulse occupies the poets and then the rhapsodists to "emerge out of themselves" and to become the unconscious hopes of a superior power that temporarily occupies and inspires them to interpret their poems. In fact, Ion presents in a particular way - and for the first time in Plato's work- the confrontation of poetry and philosophy, in order to exaggerate the superiority of the "crown of the sciences".

Marina Nasaina wurde in Nafplio geboren. Sie schloss 1998 ihr Studium an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität von Athen ab. Im Jahr 2011 schloss sie das Postgraduiertenstudium mit Spezialisierung auf "Ethik und Philosophie" ab. Im Jahr 2012 schloss sie ihr Studium an der Fakultät für Theaterwissenschaften ab und promovierte 2017 im Fach "Altgriechische Philologie".