 Homer is the greatest of poets and first of tragedy writers; but we must remain firm in our conviction that hymns to the gods and praises of famous men are the only poetry which ought to be admitted into our State. For if you go beyond this and allow...  Dialogues of Plato - Pagina 438door Plato - 1899 - 208 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1876 - 1204 pagina’s
...must remain firm in our conviction that if you allow the honeyed muse to enter, either in epic or in lyric verse, not law and reason, which by the consent of all is ever deemed the best, but pleasure and pain will be the rulers in our State." Homer represents the, to us,... | |
 | Plato - 1874 - 626 pagina’s
...we are ready to acknowledge that Homer is the greatest of poets aud first of tragedy writers ; but we must remain firm in our conviction that hymns to...are the only poetry which ought to be admitted into pur State. For if you go beyond this and allow the honeyed muse to enter, either in epic or lyric verse,... | |
 | Plato - 1881 - 532 pagina’s
...we are ready to acknowledge that Homer is the greatest of poets and first of tragedy writers ; but we must remain firm in our conviction that hymns to...enter, either in epic or lyric verse, not law and the reason of mankind, which by common consent has ever been deemed best, but pleasure and pain will... | |
 | Plato - 1888 - 628 pagina’s
...-we are ready •to acknowledge that Homer is the greatest of poets and first of tragedy writers; but we must. remain firm in our conviction that hymns...State. For if you go beyond this and allow the honeyed j.,r« j muse to enter, either in epic or lyric verse, not law and the reason of mankind, which by... | |
 | Benjamin Chapman Burt - 1889 - 326 pagina’s
..."imitates " bad men, even perfectly, is a monster, "thrice removed from the king and from truth." 2 "We must remain firm in our conviction that hymns...poetry which ought to be admitted into our state." 1 Homer and his followers must therefore be expurgated or else must be driven out. As for rhetoricians... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1903 - 722 pagina’s
...greatest of poets . . , but we must remain firm in our conviction that hymns to the gods and eulogies of famous men are the only poetry which ought to be admitted into our State". Homer's expulsion from Plato's Republic called forth a considerable controversial literature7. Athens,... | |
 | Sir John Edwin Sandys - 1903 - 714 pagina’s
...the truth they never reach '*. ' We are ready to admit that Homer is the greatest of poets . . , but we must remain firm in our conviction that hymns to the gods and eulogies of famous men are the only poetry which ought to be admitted into our State". Homer's expulsion... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1915 - 484 pagina’s
...greatest of poets..., but we must remain firm in our conviction that hymns to the gods and eulogies of famous men are the only poetry which ought to be admitted into our State ' 4. Homer's expulsion from Plato's Republic called forth a considerable controversial literature.... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1915 - 646 pagina’s
...but the truth they never reach'3. 'We are ready to admit that Homer is the greatest of poets..., but we must remain firm in our conviction that hymns to the gods and eulogies of famous men are the only poetry which ought to be admitted into our State'4. Homer's expulsion... | |
 | University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - 1920 - 458 pagina’s
...roars of laughter or painted in horrid colours the pictures of the nether world were prohibited. " We must remain firm in our conviction that hymns to...men are the only poetry which ought to be admitted to our state."1 "Anything he (the youngman) receives into his mind at that age is likely to become... | |
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