Brann, Eva, "Imitative Poetry: Book X of the Republic," The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings, Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2004, 256-72.

Excerpt:

A mindful reader of the grand finale of Plato’s Republic, the myth of the soul’s fore- and afterlife in the cosmos, might well feel scandalized. Twice in the work Socrates has inveighed against myth-making and vision-inducing poetry. First, in Books II and II, he excluded from the just city he is founding those poets who, like Homer the epic poet and Aeschylus the tragedian, show Olympian gods and great men misconducting themselves. That was a moral critique of poetry.

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