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The Attack

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Lying is a privilege of poets because they have not yet reached the level on which truth and error are discernible. (Santayana)1

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  1. George Santayana, Reason in Art (New York, 1934), 100.

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  2. This shapes much of Iris Murdoch’s argument in The Fire and the Sun (Oxford, 1977), to which I will return later; in this context, see 64–5.

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  3. John N. Findlay, Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines (New York, 1974), 109. Unless explicitly cited from some other work, references to Findlay, with page number, are to this important book.

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  7. Cf. I. M. Linforth, ‘Telestic Madness in Plato, Phaedrus 244DE’, Univ. of California Publications in Classical Philogy, XIII (1944–50), 163–72.

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  8. Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (London, 1945). Later references, abbreviated OS, will be to the 4th, revised, edition (Princeton, 1962).

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  9. Jane E. Harrison, Themis (1912; reprinted Gloucester, Mass., 1974), 328.

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  10. M. P. Nilsson, History of Greek Religion (2nd edn, Oxford, 1949), 3.

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  11. Jane E. Harrison, loc. cit.

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  12. Curt Sachs, Die Musik der Antike (New York, 1929), passim.

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    Julius A. Elias

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Elias, J.A. (1984). The Attack. In: Plato’s Defence of Poetry. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06954-5_1

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