Plato against the imitators. About your criticism of speakers poets and sophists. (Gorgias, Republic and Sophist).

Abstract

The Author analyses the Plato's arguments when he challenges rhetoric and poetry in Gorgias and The Repub!ic. She argues that Plato in both dialogues has common argument structure and anticípate the development he has throughout The Sophist. In synthesis: The adulatory practice of the speaker, just like the sophist's and the poet's are of a mimetic nature.