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The Muses

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Muse of Plato

There is no muse of visual art, says Paul Whitaker. The muses in the Hellenistic period didn't intervene at all. Vermeer thinks that the muse of painters is Clio - now Clio is my muse because he's the muse of history. What do we want to move further? No, because there's so much more to tackle that. We want to hear what you've got to say now on this program. Where are we taking Plato? You want you to say, in your last thing about Plato, there's more to say. Yes.

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