[686] Plato apparently accepts this principle with regard to the Korubantic dances (_Laws_, 790 D). [687] Athen. 624 b. [688] Pind. _P._ 5. 60-63. Cp. the story of Saul and David. [689] Athen. 624 a. [690] Plut. _Luk._ 4. [691] _Pol._ iv. 20. 2. [692] Plato, _Rep._ 399 A. [693] Londoners must devoutly hope that the Hellenic theory is false. [694] Aristot. _Rhet._ ii. 21. 16. [695] Plato, _Rep._ 401 B. [696] A poetical education probably develops the imagination at the expense of the logical mind. Plato is a good instance of this: his imagination, against his will, outweighs his reason. It may be this personal experience which gives so much bitterness to his attack on poetry. [697] Plut. _Solon_, 29. 30. [698] Children have a natural tendency to act, and need little inducement or instruction. [699] Plato, _Rep._ 424 C. [700] So in the later Renaissance the “Madonna” is the artist’s wife. [701] According to Dr. Verrall. [702] Aristoph. _Frogs_, 1301, 1340. [703] Ionicism = Herakleiteanism, πάντα ῥεῖ [panta rhei]. Doricism = Parmenideanism, τὸ πᾶν μένει [to pan menei]. [704] Plato, _Gorg._ 501-502; _Polit._ 288 C. [705] Plato, _Laws_, 657-659. [706] _Ibid._ 656. [707] _Ibid._ 698-701 C. [708] The essence of dancing is that it is _orderly_ movement; of singing that it is _orderly_ sound (_Laws_, 654). [709] Plato, _Laws_, 669-70. [710] _Ibid._ 800-802. [711] _Ibid._ 829 c. [712] Consequently the painter and the poet are, in Plato’s opinion, allies of the Sophist. [713] This is true, in a less degree, of the audience. Cp. Plutarch’s account of the Spartans (_Lac. Inst._ 239 A): “They did not listen to tragedies or comedies, in order that neither in earnest nor in jest they might hear men gainsaying the laws.” [714] Plato, _Rep._ 395 ff. [715] Plato holds that no one likes to imitate his inferiors; so the good man will not care to imitate any but the good. He ascribes this attitude to the Deity. CHAPTER X XENOPHON: “THE EDUCATION OF KUROS”