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Sanders, Kirk R. Augoustakis, Antonios Wash, Leon 2012-05-22T00:20:45Z 2012-05-22T00:20:45Z 2012-05 2012-05-22T00:20:45Z 2012-05 The concept of poetic inspiration as a species of madness has usually been traced back to Democritus of Abdera, who is believed to have been the first to use the vocabulary of ecstatic possession for the characteristic activity of the talented poet, in implicit contrast with that of the philosopher. This essay reconsiders the Democritean fragments on poets and poetry in light of those pertaining to divinity, mind, and perception, concluding that later suppositions about the irrational inspiration of poets cannot be applied to Democritus, who seems instead to have looked to the inspired poet as a paradigm for his own conception of the optimally perceptive mind. Item withdrawn by Alexis Thompson (athmpsn1@illinois.edu) on 2012-04-26T13:38:01Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Wash_Leon.pdf: 339267 bytes, checksum: 09d3c3cce17545dcc48c295effb349fa (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-05-22T00:20:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Wash_Leon.pdf: 339356 bytes, checksum: ba32ebb4d80edd0cf9fcae4f982dad98 (MD5) license.txt: 4056 bytes, checksum: 905522655df018e538e0e47811c40288 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/30997 en Copyright 2012 Leon Wash Democritus enthousiasmos On the Democritean concept of poetic inspiration text 10KS0308MA Classics 1514 Classics 0308 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A. MA:Classics -UIUC