VOICE AND LETTER OF THE UNSIGNED - THINKING AND SINGING ABOUT DEATH

Abstract

In order to approach the phenomenon of death within Greek thought, we need to enable the meeting between Plato and Homer, which at first may look like an already known meeting that Plato himself wrote about, however, we can say that both the described meeting and the one that followed in the philosophical reflections after Plato outline only one pair of shoes in the multiple understanding of their relationship. The mimesis problem, in other words the ontological needs of Plato's philosophy that establish the art of Homeric singing and every other art to the level of a lower ontological region of knowledge is not the meeting point of this work. The paper focuses on other mimesis problems that arise on the basis of the consideration of the phenomenon of death, which seem to us to be much more specific and more suitable for understanding the interest of Plato's gesture to consider poetry, primarily Homer's opinion and singing. A kind of thanatology of Plato's letter offers us a new reading of death and immortality that is sung within his ontology, and with which we open a contemporary question, the death of the author.