PLATO’S CRITICISM OF HOMER IN BOOK X OF THE REPUBLIC
ABSTRACT: Plato has been accused of trying to submit poets to a relentless political censorship. In this area, however, he is a man of his time. At Athens, it was the city and its highest authorities that organized and directed all poetical and theatrical competitions, which were religious, political, social, and aesthetic events.
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