... , as were their ideas on the mechanism of imitation. Their differing views on mimesis, as outlined principally in The Republic and The Poetics, were thus partly a consequence of their differences in their ontological and epistemological views of the world. There are other factors, too, which complicate the matter. In Book II of The Republic, Plato begins a discussion of poetry which is concerned with gods and heroes ...  Republic X), there is enough material in The Physics to construct a coherent account. Some critics have ignored the implications of this parallelism between art a...

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