Exiling the Poets
Subtitle: The Production of Censorship in Plato's Republic
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780226567273
Subjects: Ancient Greek & Roman philosophy; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Plato; Poetry; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Philosophy / Ancient; Republic; Views on censorship; Views on literature; Censorship; Greece; Greek literature; Literature and society
First sentence: THE REPUBLIC would be an unwieldy dialogue even without the censorship of poetry in three of its ten books.