Plato's Ion

By: Plato

Narrated by: Ray Childs

Socrates questions Ion, an actor who just won a major prize, about his ability to interpret the epic poetry of Homer. How does an actor, a poet, or any other artist create? Is it by knowing? Is it by inspiration? As the dialogue proceeds, the nature of human creativity emerges as a mysterious process and an unsolved puzzle.

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It’s like listening to Socrates in the Modern Day

Excellent delivery by the voice actors! They really brought the character of Socrates and his interlocutor to live.

A pun in nose to all actors and performers

Who is the more of an expert, the general of an army or an actor who plays the general? Who is the better cowboy an actual cowboy from the appropriate time period .when a very small faction of cowboys were shootest or expert killers or actors and actresses who play such? Socrates skillful handling of this question brings us down to earth when we watch action heroes or people who play presidents, or people who play those who are dying versus the real thing. It is also Socrates, ironic distinction between those who have expertise like he does because he is inhabited by a daemon distinctly tells him when not to do something versus those who judge him who use political calculation or emotional upsets, and thus not experts.