The Problem With Plato's Problem With Beauty

Proclas has a theory that there are different types of poetry and in particular I think the key thing he's got three types but the key thing is a distinction between inspired poetry and imitative or my meeting poetry. He wants to say that all that's going on in the last book of the Republic is that Plato is criticizing my meeting poetry and that you don't get very much of that in Homer most of Homer is inspired poetry  still still sort of imitative but imitating again this is where the notion of my meets has become very flexible imitating something not directly but in a symbolic kind of way. The artist is imitating protonic forms in Proclas as I