Couch City
Berger, Harry / Risvold, Ward
Harry Berger has done it again. His ever-sharp vision has once more pierced through the opacities of plodding scholarship about the debates of Plato's Socrates about poets and their poetry. Yes, these poets and their defenders were foils for Plato, but they were in real life Socrates' most worthy intellectual match. Berger's portrait of Simonides as viewed by Protagoras is translucent-yet another masterpiece achieved by a true master of Platon...