 Plato believes that music may contribute to the education of the youth, and more generally to the correct functioning of society, but also holds that it may pose dangers. Underlying Plato’s concerns about the musical education of citizens is the wider assumption that changes in musical taste must be avoided or at least closely scrutinized, as they will produce changes in society (Republic, 4.424b–d, Laws 2.660a-b). In the Laws, Plato goes so far as to describe the changes in musical taste that followed the Persian wars as the trigger for subsequent rejection of authority and societal unrest (Laws, 700a-701b).