1. Socrates
... guardians the great attributes of heroes for them to imitate without showing them he heroes and gods in morally questionable or unvirtuos situations. There are three approaches to story-telling narrative alone, narrative through imitation or both (392d). Socrates favours narration alone because it requires the least amount of variations because "each individual would do a fine job of one occupation, not of ... individual cannot imitate many things as well as he can one,"(394e) and thus he will be better at what he does by concentrating on his narration and not imitations. Narrative thro...
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