THE REPUBLIC BY PLATO

The Republic by Plato

The Republic by Plato

Introduction

When we believe of a philosopher's comments about verse, certain thing like a treatise on aesthetics arrives to mind. At a smallest, we anticipate a rigorous written check of the characteristics that characterise “poetry”; the dissimilarities between types of verse (epic, tragic, lyric, comic, and so forth); the senses in which verse is and is not compelled to representation, imitation, expression—all likely connotations of the academic Greek phrase “mimesis”—as well as fiction. (Adams, 1996)

 

Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry

These perplexing periods themselves need very careful definition. Equally penetrating and methodical comments about the ...