The Writings of Plato and Dantes For more time than artists would like to admit we have been fighting a man who haunts us from a grave long forgotten, and for just over 600 years we have paid great respect to a man whose marble tomb lies in Florence. Since the dawn of time people have passed on traditions and myths to teach us things in ways that capture our interest and make us want to pass those traditions on. It is those life lessons that we learn best when they are not being beaten into our heads with a preacher's bat. It is through the use of hidden meaning or allegory in the text that we can see this. Plato argued that the literature is mimetic and that all Poetry is a failed replication of the world, just what you would see if you just spun a mirror round and round; Dante, on the other hand, saw that literature was far more than just that which was pre....

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