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Hunter, R. (2011). Plato’s Ion and the Origins of Scholarship. In S. Matthaios, F. Montanari, & A. Rengakos (Eds.), Ancient Scholarship and Grammar: Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts (pp. 27-40). De Gruyter.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110254044.27

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• TITLE: Plato’s Ion: An Interpretation with a Sociopolitical Perspective

  AUTHORS: Hippokratis Kiaris

  KEYWORDS: Plato, Art, Dialogues, Hierarchy, Forms, Artist, Philosophy of Art, Reciter, Rhapsodist

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Literary Study, Vol.11 No.2, April 24, 2023

  ABSTRACT: Ion is probably the most underappreciated dialogue of Plato. Its conventional interpretation focuses on his criticism of artistic creation, that is viewed as the result of divine inspiration and occurs outside the artist’s awareness. I propose that Ion possesses an additional important value, as a form of social criticism: By disengaging the poet from the reciter, Plato targets specifically the latter, and his position in the society, but not the former that is spared from the philosopher’s criticism. Poet’s divine inspiration is just a metaphor for exceptional creativity which is used by the reciter for his personal benefits.