 The defining example establishes mimêsis as impersonation. Homer’s poems alternate between third-person accounts of events (in which Homer narrates in his own voice) and speeches of the characters involved in those events. When Homer relates Agamemnon’s rebuke to the priest Chryses he uses the abusive language that a warriors’ king would use when such a king refused to show mercy (393a–c). The presentation of character is, notably, ambiguous between the act of writing or composing the words of a character like Agamemnon, and the act of reciting (performing, acting out) the words. The ambiguity (seen also in Aristophanes) lets Socrates deploy more than one argument against the presentation of characters.