
HoP 095 - Anne Sheppard on Ancient Aesthetics
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Relationship Between Poetry and Music
The word moussey-kay is used by Plato, it tends to cover both poetry and music. He has exactly the same concerns or parallel concerns of the effect of music on the emotions. Music was also used for some kind of therapy in a religious setting that comes out in what Aristotle has to say in the politics about music.
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