The mythic poetry exiled from Plato's republic expresses a way of communicating history and emotion, unlike today's poetry , which expresses and communicates only emotions. The modern reader commonly interprets Plato's expulsion of poets as an attack on the emotional part of are being. However, this attack was not on poets as we understand the meaning of poetry it was on a form of thinking and communicating important information. During Plato's era written communication and conceptual thinking was just beginning to come into existence on a mass scale. The Greek alphabet was created well

In between Plato and Hesoid is Socrates a figure of paradox as contradictory as any of his predecessors. Socrates' methodology was of the oral tradition learning through dialogue, yet defiantly struggling to achieve a set of non-poetic syntactical relations and a non-poetic vocabulary. Socrates' discussion with the rhapsode Ion claims that the majority of people in Athens neither know themselves or poetry. Ion, the reciter of Homer, claims to be an expert interpreter of poetry making him a man of great wisdom and common sense. Socrates shows Ion to be an imitator of poets who are imitators of the muse, making him thrice removed from the pure form of beauty. Socrates admits that Ion is very skilled at manipulating the emotions of his audience, but shows him to be nothing more than an unintelligent fool. At this point we have left what was a conversation between Ion and Socrates, and Plato is entering his own ideology into Socrates. Plato's purpose in doing so is to give the reader a prime example of the evils of poetry. It allows men or women of little intelligence to be perceived as great wise men because of their ability to move the audience's emotions.

The transition from oral to literate habits of communication in Greek culture begins with Hesoid. Hesoid used poetry himself while questioning the accepted epic poems of Homer. It is important to understand that Homer's works were not simply pretty stories to be enjoyed, they existed as a bible for Greek thought. In a sense Hesoid began the questioning of accepted thought and Plato had the solutions to the problems in Greek thought. During Hesoid's era oral verse was the instrument of a cultural indoctrination, the ultimate purpose of was the preservation of a group identity. Hesoid's works are best described as encyclopedias of Greek culture. His first work Theogony in superficial terms is a catalogue of the names of Greek gods and their functions arranged in families. We must not over look the fact that Hesoid did use Homeric verse in his writings. Homeric verse must be viewed as a necessity for any writings during this period since catalogue in its pure or isolated form was not likely to survive in a wholly oral medium that existed in Greek society. However, Hesoid's cataloguing was a movement in the evolution of thought towards a conceptual form of thinking. The Works and Days is a catalogue of exhortations, parables, proverbs, aphorisms, sayings, wise saws and instances, interlard with stories ( Havek 295). Hesoid's writings had to be in the form of a narrative context, phrased with a maximum of active verbs and adjectives in order to dress up the information as action, in order for the writings to have a place in living memory or Greek mythic thought. Hesoid himself thought in mythic terms his cataloguing was a step towards conceptual thought, meaning Hesoid did not have the ability to write like a modern thinker he was a man of his age as we all are. Genius allows a man to move his age ahead, but he cannot leapfrog the natural steps of evolution. Hesoid was beginning the philosophical concept of thinking of things in spatial terms.

Would Plato exile southern Baptist or evangelist from his republic? Yes, these religious zealots place faith above reason. Claims to knowledge on how a society should exist and what is the best way to live life are commonly made by religious enthusiast. Evangelist commonly state they can heal with a touch, while they hoop and hol

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