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The Apology
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1 Intro| representations of the Comic poets, and in the opinion of the 2 Intro| politicians, and then to the poets, and then to the craftsmen, 3 Intro| equally ridiculed by the Comic poets, and almost equally hateful 4 Text | politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and 5 Text | knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort 6 Text | the meaning of them. The poets appeared to me to be much 7 Text | into the same error as the poets;—because they were good 8 Text | with me on behalf of the poets; Anytus, on behalf of the 9 Text | well as to other dramatic poets.) (price of admission one Charmides Part
10 Text | Anacreon, Solon, and many other poets, as famous for beauty and Cratylus Part
11 Intro| Arist. Met.) and the Orphic poets are alluded to by the way; 12 Intro| him you may learn of the poets, and in particular of Homer, 13 Intro| recourse, like the tragic poets, to a Deus ex machina, and 14 Intro| ex machina’ by the tragic poets when they have to solve 15 Intro| to remind us that great poets like Aeschylus or Sophocles 16 Text | must learn of Homer and the poets.~HERMOGENES: And where does 17 Text | kind in Homer and other poets. Now, I think that this 18 Text | occurs. Now he and other poets say truly, that when a good 19 Text | body; probably the Orphic poets were the inventors of the 20 Text | the air is wind, and the poets call the winds ‘air-blasts,’ ( 21 Text | You must remember that the poets, when they speak of the 22 Text | divine help, like the tragic poets, who in any perplexity have Euthydemus Part
23 Text | and therefore, like the poets, I ought to commence my Euthyphro Part
24 Intro| morality, which the great poets Aeschylus, Sophocles, and 25 Text | battles, and the like, as the poets say, and as you may see Gorgias Part
26 Intro| merely rhetoricians, but poets, musicians, and other artists, 27 Intro| Sophists, rhetoricians, poets, are alike brought up for 28 Intro| points of similarity. The poets, like the rhetoricians, 29 Intro| Protagoras, that the ancient poets were the Sophists of their 30 Intro| true poet?~Plato expels the poets from his Republic because 31 Intro| nature. There have been poets in modern times, such as 32 Intro| not going to banish the poets, how can we suppose that 33 Text | SOCRATES: And do not the poets in the theatres seem to Ion Part
34 Intro| company—in the company of good poets and of Homer, who is the 35 Intro| knows nothing of inferior poets, such as Hesiod and Archilochus;— 36 Intro| inspired by the God. The poets and their interpreters may 37 Intro| him are suspended other poets; there is also a chain of 38 Intro| this is the reason why some poets, like Homer, are restricted 39 Intro| the interpreters of single poets.~Ion is delighted at the 40 Intro| the Apology, he speaks of poets as the worst critics of 41 Intro| the Protagoras the ancient poets are recognized by Protagoras 42 Text | the company of many good poets; and especially of Homer, 43 Text | interpreter of what these two poets say about divination, not 44 Text | about Hesiod or the other poets? Does not Homer speak of 45 Text | same themes which all other poets handle? Is not war his great 46 Text | SOCRATES: And do not the other poets sing of the same?~ION: Yes, 47 Text | that Homer and the other poets, such as Hesiod and Archilochus, 48 Text | skilled in Homer and in other poets, since he himself acknowledges 49 Text | things; and that almost all poets do speak of the same things?~ 50 Text | able to speak of all other poets; for poetry is a whole.~ 51 Text | rhapsodes and actors, and the poets whose verses you sing, are 52 Text | inspiration. For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, 53 Text | right mind, so the lyric poets are not in their right mind 54 Text | the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions 55 Text | takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, 56 Text | work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters 57 Text | the mouth of the worst of poets he sang the best of songs? 58 Text | I am persuaded that good poets by a divine inspiration 59 Text | the interpreters of the poets?~ION: There again you are 60 Text | first rings, which are the poets, depend others, some deriving Laws Book
61 2 | can we suppose that the poets are to be allowed to teach 62 2 | been the destruction of the poets; for they are now in the 63 2 | this is the way in which poets generally compose in States 64 2 | follows: you compel your poets to say that the good man, 65 2 | persuade or compel your poets to utter with suitable accompaniments 66 2 | I would try to make the poets and all the citizens speak 67 2 | representative. Will not poets and spectators and actors 68 2 | to discern, because the poets are artists very inferior 69 2 | were all one. But human poets are fond of introducing 70 2 | this confusion, and yet the poets go on and make still further 71 2 | common people, or even of the poets themselves. For the poet 72 3 | much of him, for foreign poets are very little read among 73 3 | words of God and nature; for poets are a divine race and often 74 3 | then, as time went on, the poets themselves introduced the 75 4 | legislator ought not to allow the poets to do what they liked? For 76 4 | to him on behalf of the poets?~Cleinias. What answer shall 77 6 | them? And the wisest of our poets, speaking of Zeus, says:~ 78 7 | be to the effect that our poets, understanding prayers to 79 7 | Did we not imply that the poets are not always quite capable 80 7 | taking into their counsel poets and musicians, and making 81 7 | that we have a great many poets writing in hexameter, trimeter, 82 7 | as to get by heart entire poets; while others select choice 83 7 | that every one of these poets has said many things well 84 7 | And, if any of the serious poets, as they are termed, who 85 7 | to our ability are tragic poets, and our tragedy is the 86 7 | truth of tragedy. You are poets and we are poets, both makers 87 7 | You are poets and we are poets, both makers of the same 88 8 | is the opposite. And let poets celebrate the victors—not 89 9 | writings of those others—poets and the like, who either 90 9 | Homer and Tyrtaeus and other poets to lay down evil precepts 91 10 | esteemed to be the best of poets, and orators, and prophets, 92 10 | the sayings of wise men, poets and prose writers, which 93 10 | and are celebrated both by poets and prose writers—these 94 12 | let no one be deluded by poets or mythologers into a mistaken 95 12 | better informed than all the, poets put together. Happy is he 96 12 | and perplexity, and the poets took occasion to be abusiveLysis Part
97 Intro| them. Socrates turns to the poets, who affirm that God brings 98 Intro| adduce the authority of poets and philosophers in support 99 Intro| also by the sayings of the poets (‘who are our fathers in 100 Text | turned, and see what the poets have to say; for they are Menexenus Part
101 Text | the Argives; besides, the poets have already declared in Meno Part
102 Intro| time, to which priests and poets bear witness. The souls 103 Text | profession: there have been poets also, who spoke of these 104 Text | including the whole tribe of poets. Yes, and statesmen above Phaedo Part
105 Intro| that which is called by the poets the Stygian river, and passes 106 Intro| mysteries and the Orphic poets to representations, partly 107 Intro| the mysteries and Orphic poets: a ‘heap of books’ (Republic), 108 Intro| his old enemies the Comic poets, and to the proceedings 109 Text | them? Are they not, as the poets are always telling us, inaccurate 110 Text | my old enemies, the Comic poets, could accuse me of idle 111 Text | other places, and many other poets, have called Tartarus. And 112 Text | name of the river, as the poets say, is Cocytus.~Such is Phaedrus Part
113 Intro| composers in the world, poets, orators, legislators, we 114 Intro| then they are not only poets, orators, legislators, but 115 Intro| praises from novelists and poets, is not exacting or exclusive, 116 Intro| perished, why the lyric poets have almost wholly disappeared; 117 Text | are to be called, not only poets, orators, legislators, but Protagoras Part
118 Intro| practice of introducing the poets, who ought not to be allowed, 119 Intro| Against the authority of the poets with whom Protagoras has 120 Intro| the Lacedaemonians. The poets, the Laconizers, and Protagoras 121 Intro| treatment in Plato both of the Poets and the Sophists, who are 122 Intro| the introduction of the poets as a substitute for original 123 Intro| claims advanced for the Poets by Protagoras; the mistake 124 Intro| of an interpreter of the Poets. The two latter personages 125 Intro| discourses or citations from the poets. The second question, whether 126 Intro| contain discussions of the Poets, which offer a parallel 127 Text | names, some under that of poets, as Homer, Hesiod, and Simonides, 128 Text | hands the works of great poets, which he reads sitting 129 Text | poems of other excellent poets, who are the lyric poets; 130 Text | poets, who are the lyric poets; and these they set to music, 131 Text | what compositions of the poets are correct, and what are 132 Text | that. The talk about the poets seems to me like a commonplace 133 Text | another’s voice, or of the poets whom you cannot interrogate 134 Text | should imitate. Leaving the poets, and keeping to ourselves, The Republic Book
135 1 | arrived at that time which the poets call the "threshold of old 136 1 | then, after the manner of poets, would seem to have spoken 137 2 | which is not confined to the poets, but is found in prose writers. 138 2 | execute their will. And the poets are the authorities to whom 139 2 | and the genealogies of the poets; and these are the very 140 2 | both or neither. If the poets speak truly, why, then, 141 2 | the gods, who were their poets and prophets, bear a like 142 2 | Hesiod, and the rest of the poets, who have ever been the 143 2 | and when they grow up, the poets also should be told to compose 144 2 | at this moment are not poets, but founders of a State: 145 2 | the general forms in which poets should cast their tales, 146 2 | concerning the gods, to which our poets and reciters will be expected 147 2 | friend, let none of the poets tell us that ~"The gods, 148 2 | under the influence of the poets scaring their children with 149 3 | beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike 150 3 | entreat Homer and the other poets not to depict Achilles, 151 3 | let us further compel the poets to declare either that these 152 3 | have to say that about men; poets and story-tellers are guilty 153 3 | mimetic art-whether the poets, in narrating their stories, 154 3 | no further, and are the poets only to be required by us 155 3 | in other places (as the poets say, and have made the world 156 5 | hymeneal songs composed by our poets: the number of weddings 157 8 | by him and by the other poets. ~And therefore, I said, 158 8 | therefore, I said, the tragic poets being wise men will forgive 159 10 | may be in the right, and poets do really know the things 160 10 | appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the 161 10 | or sport, and the tragic poets, whether they write in iambic 162 10 | satisfied and delighted by the poets; the better nature in each 163 10 | Homer is the greatest of poets and first of tragedy writers; 164 10 | lovers of poetry and yet not poets the permission to speak The Second Alcibiades Part
165 Pre | probably that about the poets:—the remark that the poet, 166 Text | wisest and most divine of poets, was unaware of the impossibility The Sophist Part
167 Intro| rhetoricians, lawyers, statesmen, poets, sophists. But the Sophist 168 Intro| of goodness or badness. Poets as well as philosophers 169 Intro| interpreter and reciter of the poets, the divider of the meanings 170 Intro| warriors, the five greatest poets, the five greatest founders The Statesman Part
171 Intro| things. He has banished the poets, and is beginning to use The Symposium Part
172 Intro| by the authority of the poets; secondly upon the benefits 173 Intro| wisdom and virtue, such as poets and other creators have 174 Intro| as ridiculed by the Comic poets; and in the New Comedy the 175 Intro| in the Lyric and Elegiac poets; and in mythology ‘the greatest 176 Intro| the exception of the Comic poets (whose business was to raise 177 Text | encomiast among all the poets who are so many. There are 178 Text | art, as our friends the poets here tell us, and I believe 179 Text | masters of arts are all poets or makers.’ ‘Very true.’ ‘ 180 Text | that they are not called poets, but have other names; only 181 Text | sense of the word are called poets.’ ‘Very true,’ I said. ‘ 182 Text | general. And such creators are poets and all artists who are 183 Text | and Hesiod and other great poets, would not rather have their Theaetetus Part
184 Intro| and others, and all the poets, with Epicharmus, the king 185 Intro| being derived from the poets, who speak in a figure of 186 Text | control us, as he might the poets?~SOCRATES: Then, as this Timaeus Part
187 Intro| the same enmity to the poets, the same combination of 188 Intro| and he is afraid that the poets are equally incapable; for, 189 Intro| men but also the best of poets. The old man brightened 190 Intro| interpretations of Homer and the poets were supposed by them to 191 Intro| tradition. Hesiod and the Orphic poets moved in a region of half-personification 192 Text | wonder is rather that the poets present as well as past 193 Text | and the poems of several poets were recited by us boys, 194 Text | but also the noblest of poets. The old man, as I very 195 Text | Solon had only, like other poets, made poetry the business


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