Plato and Girard

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Comparing Plato's Understanding of Mimesis to Girard's

By Per Bjørnar Grande

Bergen University College

The literature of antiquity depicts a static world; it does not show changes as a result of

everyday life.

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The instability (of fortune) almost always appears as fate.

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Erich Auerbach

claims that the literature of Antiquity does not reveal the underlying conditions of what it presents;

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rather it alludes to this condition as fate or divine intervention. However, a certain awareness of

governing principles begins to manifest itself with Plato. Thus, with Plato the reason for

instability in society is rationalised and understood as mimesis.

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