Talk:Mimesis

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 04:12, 17 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

To be honest, this article is a bit of a mess and quite confusing for the reader. I think the biggest problem is that it violates WP:NOTDICT. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, so article that list various meanings of a work throughout history is specifically discouraged. A clearer, more useful way to structure the article is to decide on a single definition of 'mimesis' and have the article about that. Other meaning of the word should have their own WP pages, which can be accessed via a disambig. Ashmoo (talk) 12:57, 10 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

There is an error in the text. Under Plato, it states, "In Book II of The Republic, Plato describes Socrates' dialogue with his pupils. Socrates warns we should not seriously regard poetry as being capable of attaining the truth and that we who listen to poetry should be on our guard against its seductions, since the poet has no place in our idea of God."

Is/are the authors of this piece saying that Plato, who died about 350 years before Jesus was allegedly born, and who was Greek, not Jewish, referred to "our idea of God"?

Which God - Athena? Zeus?

Please rephrase to eliminate the reference to "God". 173.79.196.191 (talk) 03:48, 24 September 2022 (UTC)Reply