Plato believes strongly in the censorship of literature. He is concerned more with content rather than the form of literature. For example, he is greatly troubled by the poems of Hesiod and Homer that often portray gods and heroes as immoral, murderous, deceptive, vicious, unjust and feuding. According to Plato, these poems which are staples of Athenian education contain lies and portray gods and heroes performing indecent and immoral acts. Therefore, Plato aims to censor all immoral poetry containing vice of any kind, “false stories” with bad representations of gods or heroes that discourages courage by heightening the guardian

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