The Apology
    Part
  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 abusive—


Lysis
    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