Abstract

The point of this paper is to reflect about the platonic criticism against Homer, an argumentation based on The Republic. Plato’s criticism is self-justified due to the conflicting situation in which the city of Athens had come across. Rich and poor took advantage of poetry dreams, in order to defend their interests. Plato sees the need to break up with these standards and to create a new educational era. He intendeds to remove all imperfections of the city and to establish new ethical principles; however they are far different from Homer’s Poetry. It was intended to demonstrate educational conditions proposed by Plato for a new city, keeping as a background Plato’s criticism to Homer.