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Plato was one of the greatest philosophers to ever live. Throughout his lifetime he wrote many books, one entitled The Republic: Book X, which deals with his opinion of the perfect society. In that book Plato talks about his love for art, but according to him, his perfect society did not have room for art. Plato felt art was useless in society and far from the truth. Although Plato loved Homer, author of The Odyssey, he felt Homer did not belong in the perfect society. Plato believed that any form of art was truth less. Plato’s second reason for not allowing art was it affected people’s emotions. Plato believed in only rational approaches in life, while Homer, as we can see in Book Twenty-Two of The Odyssey, based most of his poetry on emotion. Although Homer has withstood the test of time over the past few centuries, his poetry is a prime example of why Plato wouldn’t allow him or any other artist as part of his perfect society. Plato’s first argument with art is the simplicity of truth. Plato’s ideas about truth begin with nature. Nature and only nature, which is created