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Eric A. Havelock's Preface To Plato

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Eric A. Havelock’s Preface to Plato is exceeded by the enjoyment in brings in reading only by the logical and cohesive argument that is being advanced. The prompt for this paper is to “discuss what you believe to be the most important single contribution” of this amazing book. Although there are many ideas that could feasibly be seen as meeting this requirement, however, all of these claims feed in to the central claim of the book and what I believe is the only logical response to this prompt. Havelock’s central claim is that Plato believed that poetics had no value in the Academy because it was uncritical, subjective and a simple memory aid. This line of argumentation both helps in the understanding of classical rhetoric and why Greece

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