Q.) Why do you think Plato (or anyone else) would want to censor Hesiod? Remember that Hesiod was the poet who wrote about the fight between the gods and the titans.
A.) I think they want to censor it because they have no real evidence of gods and the titans ever existing and there is no logic in that. It goes against what they believe in and they think it is wrong. The Theogony talks about the origins of the world and the gods and Plato thinks that was not true.
Q) What are Homer and Hesiod guilty of?
A.) Misinterpreting the other beliefs.
Q) What are the two main characteristics of “god” and what are the laws/principles of story telling based on those characteristics?
A.) They say that god is all the good things and will cause not trouble. God is supposed to be seen as reality which is good and just.
Q) Compare what you wrote in your personal reflection above (#1) with what Plato wrote. How close were you to what Plato wrote?
A.) I was right in a way because they thought it was nonsense to believe in something not true.
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