birth of heroes

Plato--based on the idea of "the one" (spiritual realm), without the "ideal" of the object (or such), the physical version of the object, considered only a shadow/replica (representation, imitation, reflection)--they physical version could not exist.

The ideal inoles "naming" or conceptualizing the thing--if we did not hae a name for a tree--would it case to be?

p.17 (interp) The hero was a creation of Greek culture--as a result of the ordering/categorization of things through poetry and the poetic imagination (e.g. in epics such as the Illiad/Odyssey, characters were observed performing good deeds--through these stories, the Greeks formulated their theories of goodness and other standards (Greek myths?) until Plato (and subsequent others?) questioned these ideals and touted logic over the unquestioning acceptance of such ideas.