The Republic · ¶5196
Music, to be taught before gymnastic, 2. 376 E (cp. 3. 403 C); includes literature (λόγοι), 2. 376 E; —in education, ib. 377 foll.; 3. 398 foll.; 7. 522 A (see Poetry, Poets, and cp. Protag. 326; Laws 2. 654, 660); complexity in, to be rejected, 3. 397 [cp. Laws 7. 812]; the severe and the vulgar kind, ibid. [cp. Laws 7. 802]; the end of, the love of beauty, ib. 403 C; like gymnastic, should be studied throughout life, ibid.; the simpler kinds of, foster temperance in the soul, ib. 404 A, 410 A; effect of excessive, ib. 410, 411; ancient forms of, not to be altered, 4. 424 [cp. Laws 2. 657; 7. 799, 801]; must be taught to women, 5. 452.Read in context ›
Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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