The Importance of Homer's Criticism of Aristotle

Homer is only appropriate for people really quite advanced like philosophers who have some chance of understanding of theological underpinning so I think that would be the implication. Proclus doesn't spell out the education implications but he could probably live with the idea then that the poet should as it were be kicked out of the ideal city because most of the people in the ideal city won't be philosophers so they shouldn't be. He says remarkably little about the ideal city even though he wrote a whole series of essays about the republic. There's very little discussion of the the political side of the republic it's much more about the psychology and the metaphysics. It strikes me actually that when similar thing that happens in