The article shows that, in criticizing and censoring poetry, in books II and III of The Republic, rather than adjusting the traditional school curriculum to the demands of its political project, Plato intends to extinguish a certain "Weltanschauung" produced and consolidated by it. The attack is directed at all poetic genres, but the main aim is dramatic poetry, that is, the one in which mimesis is understood as personification or incorporation of characters, and, among dramatic genres, the tragic will be considered its greatest enemy.O artigo pretende mostrar que, ao criticar e censurar a poesia, nos livros II e III de A República, mais do que adequar o currículo escolar tradicional às exigências de seu projeto político, Platão tem em vist...