![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Homer’s work, King Priam lamented on his son Prince Hector’s death. ![]() They should be brave and act as how Kings are, according to Plato. Nor should they lament about the death of their loved ones. Book III of the republic discussed about bravery and how men should be fearless about death if they are indeed brave. He criticized Homer’s work when the point of view of his works changed from character to character. In terms of contents of literature, Plato pointed out that it should only be in simple narration. This was called mimesis, the act of imitating and opposite term would be anmimesis. He also mentioned that Poets should be banished out of a community for the very reason that they may corrupt the minds of the people with their blasphemy. With this logic, he called poets deceivers, that poets compose lies and false occurrences. Therefore the painter was only imitating the imitation which according to Plato made whatever the painter was making away from truth. He used a painter, craftsman and the divine as an example where the painter only imitated the craftsman’s work that was imitated from the divine. However, he mentioned that what the poets of his time composed was a third away from the truth. For Plato, literature should show the morality of the world. Plato’s the republic was one of the earliest criticisms in Literature. Compare and Contrast Plato’s The Republic: Book III and X, Aristotle’s Poetics: Perspective of Tragedy, Horace’s Ars Poetica, and Longinus On the Sublime ![]()
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