These people's engagement with the gods is attacked at the end of Book II of the Republic.
The Protagoras ends with an argument over the views of two of these people on the concept of virtue. These people's engagement with the gods is attacked at the end of Book II of the Republic. In another dialogue, Socrates attacks the claim of truly learning a techne from these people, and also the idea that one can be an expert on only one of these people. In the Republic, Socrates analogizes these people first to a highly skilled carpenter, then a painter, putting them at three removes from (*) reality. In Socrates' second speech from the Phaedrus, these people are said to be inspired by a kind of divine madness. Socrates compares skill in interpreting these people's work to a chain of magnetic rings, and compares a famous interpreter to a possessed prophet, in the Ion. In the Republic, Socrates attacks how these people use mimesis, or imitation, arguing instead for them to use pure narration. For 10 points, name these people that Plato thinks should be expelled from the ideal Republic.
The Protagoras ends with an argument over the views of two of these people on the concept of virtue.
poets [or poietes]