Plato

[hardblue]

Plato is discussing the different types of divine madness or possession or inspiration. This one by the Muses is a keeper for me.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<“The third type of possession and madness is possession by the Muses. When this seizes upon a gentle and virgin soul it rouses it to inspired expression in lyric and other sorts of poetry, and

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good old plato

[pigshitpoet]

damn, i just tried reading a fantasy novel called the gods behaving badly by marie phillips

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1159679.Gods_Behaving_Badly

it didn't do anything for me. i found it frivolous..

there was none of the depth of plato nor the candour of catullus, nor ribald rabelais, just a cacopohony of dumb and dumber...

RE: good old plato

[hardblue]

Well, it does seem like a pop-novel, not that there is anything wrong with a fun, light read. If you are hungering for more literary substance dealing with the pagan gods, you cannot beat the original stuff - Homer's Iliad/Odyssey, or Ovid's "Metamorphoss" (vouching for the Mandelbaum translation).

RE: good old plato

[pigshitpoet]

oh yeah, nothing like the real thing, eh coke?

; )))