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Plato's Myth of the Cave: Responding to Literature through Descriptive Essays

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  1. Experience Myth of the Cave (Free Introductory Lesson)
  2. Socrates, Plato, & Aristotle
  3. Discuss the Myth
  4. Myth of the Cave Assessment
  5. Pop Culture Connection
  6. Writing with Sources
  7. One-Dimensional Descriptive Writing
  8. Multidimensional Descriptive Writing
  9. Experience "To Build a Fire"
  10. Analyze "To Build a Fire"
  11. Descriptive Essay Assignment
  12. Your Journey out of the Cave

Dr. Louis Markos has written a clear, concise, and entertaining version of Plato’s famous Myth of the Cave, as well as many other fabulous interpretations of iconic works from Greek Mythology. 

Read the myth on page 190. 

Click below to purchase the book. 

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You can also access the story below from Harvard University’s Scholars at Harvard as a pdf.

The video below begins with a two-minute overview of Personal Narrative writing, which was the focus of the previous course, Myth of the Winged Soul. The writing genre for this course is Description. The remainder of this video discusses Myth of the Cave.