Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plato, Ion, 531b

nan Soc. But what of those where they do not say the same? For example, about the seer’s art, on which both Homer and Hesiod say something. Ion. Quite so. Soc. Well then, would you, or one of the good seers, expound better what these two poets say, not only alike but differently, about the seer’s art? Ion. One of the seers. Soc. And if you were a seer, would you not, with an ability to expound what they say in agreement, know also how to expound the points on which they differ? Ion. Of course. Soc. Then how is it that you are skilled in Homer

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subject	book bibliographic info
allusion	Fowler (2014) 240
choricius	Fowler (2014) 240
cosmos,material	Struck (2016) 44
craftsman,diviner as	Struck (2016) 44
divination,as technê/skill	Struck (2016) 44
hesiod	Fowler (2014) 240
homer	Fowler (2014) 240
mantis (diviner)	Struck (2016) 44
muse/muses	Fowler (2014) 240
plato,ion	Fowler (2014) 240
plato	Fowler (2014) 240
poet,poetry	Fowler (2014) 240
soul	Struck (2016) 44
technê (craft )	Struck (2016) 44
technē/τέχνη'	Fowler (2014) 240
wisdom	Struck (2016) 44