Contribution of the Presocratic Philosophy to the Greek Lyric Poetry of the VI B.C

Abstract

The present study deals with the role of pre-Socratic philosophy in the appearing of inner life, which a very approached theme in Greek lyric poetry of VI b.C, mainly by Sappho of Lesbos. While in Homer we had some very impersonal form of art without psychology, in Greek lyric poetry we have questions that deal with inner feelings. However, this reflections were possible because the existence of the presocratic philosophy which was born almost at the same as greek lyric poetry. This philosophy proposed a new interpretation to the question about nature and a new notion about about the world in general and the myths. This new interpretation reach also the practice of literary art, put its influences in it. In our reflections about the contribution of presocratic philosophy, we don’t emphasize this or that philosopher, but the thought of the philosophy as a whole. The present study is based on the reflection established by Jean-Pierre Vernant (1986), Gerd Borheim (1999), Bruno Snell (1992) and in some bibliography concerned to the theme direct or indirectly.