f. The god pulls peoples souls throught all these wherever he want, looping the power down from one to another. So if Ion tell a sad story, his eyes are full of tears and when he tell a story thats frightening, or awful, his hair stands on end with fear and his heart jumps and same effects on most of his spectators too. Ion is possessed from Homer when he tells Homers story. And when anyone sings the work of another poet, Ion is asleep and lost about what to say; but when any song of Homer is sounded, Ion is immediately awake, his soul is dancing, and he have plenty to say. Its like Corybantes, who have sharp ears only for the specific song that belongs to whatever god possesses them; they have plenty of words and movements to go with that song; but they are quite lost if music is different.Socrates says; what we learn by mastering one proferrion we wont learn by mastering another. Knowledge [involved in one case] deals with different subjects from the knowledge [in another case], then that one is a different profession from the other. A person who has not mastered a given profession will not be a good judge of the things, which belong to that profession, whether they are things said or things done. For example, rhapsodes profession is different from the charioteers, then its knowledge is of different subjects.So a rhapsodes profession, on your view, will not know everything, and neither will a rhapsode.therefore, a rhapsode its as someone divine, and not as master of a profession, Ion is just a singer of Homers praises. Ion as rhapsode, a reciter of Homer, and despite his talent for dramatics, intonation, and voice inflection the seemingly necessary vocal tools of a recite his knowledge and understanding of Homer, specifically in terms of those various arts, fails to extend beyond his ability to memorize the epic poem. This becomes important when one considers the role of such rhapsodes in Greece, as interpreters of Homer, and in that...
