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How could such figures possibly serve
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as good role models for citizens of a just city?
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And Socrates' answer is, of course,
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the predation of poetry
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and the arts in Books II and III.
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He wants to deprive poets of their power to enchant,
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and something Socrates admits
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in the tenth book of the Republic,
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to which he himself has been highly susceptible
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to the enchantment of the poets.
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We need to deprive, again, the poets, the song makers,
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the lyricists, the musicians, the mythmakers,