The article focuses on the use of the term diegesis in Republic 392d and concludes that it should not be understood simply as "narrative", since it covers other kinds of accounts carried out by a diegetes. It brings out the fact that diegesis, to which everything that is said by mythologists and poets is reduced, is also a discourse genre relevant to the transmission of Socratic logoi, and that could explain why Plato has to reflect upon the poets' logos.
Plato; Narrative; Mimesis; Poetry; Socratic Dialogue; Discourse Genres
