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Sleep Story 206 – The Republic of Plato

Bore You To Sleep - Sleep Stories for Adults

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The Division of the Book Into Books

The division into books, like all similar things, is probably later than the age plato. Poetry is discovered to be an imitation thrice removed from the truth. And homer, as well as the dramatic poets, having been condemned as an imitator, is sent to banishment along with them. The higher light of philosophy breaks through the regularity of thehellenic temple,. which at last fades away into the heavens.

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