Comparative mythology corpus

Banishment Of Poets From The Ideal Order

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

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Greek The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5943-6033 medium Plato rejoices in banishing poets, associates them with inferior faculties, treats Homer and Hesiod as no rule of life, and is described as opposing poetry to philosophy, sense to abstract ideas. record