capacity, as, essentially rewriters of the text. The danger apparent here, Socrates asserts, is in that the interpretation of Homer, conducted by a rhapsode, is a product entirely of ignorance. I believe there are problems inherent in this situation emerging out of an audience rom bad. Further, if one choosesinability to recognize distinctions between interpretations based on content and on dramatics in order to further create that dynamic where a choice is made in order to recognize good, one must differentiate good f good based upon false information or an ill presentation of that dynamic needed for choice, good may be bad, or good may the only option available. The danger, of course, lies within that situation where the false interpretation of a story is witnessed as fantastic by an audience, and recorded as such. Socrates fears this state of practice. He, as does Homer, works within the realm of the spoken word, and while dramatics and adornment may mark the popularity of the rhapsode, neither is any indication of a correct, or even valid, interpretation of any art expressed in Homer poems, particularly that art of telling a story, where the telling becomes at once a theatrical presentation, and an interpretation....
