Classic Imagery. Pre-Socrates Philosophy, Socrates and Plato's 'Advent'

The article is devoted to the classic period of the ancient history of the image. Here the classic image system is stripped of its protective linearities. The time of the image's permanent protective function, which it used to have in the geometric period in particular, has passed The rigid and classical artistic styles complete the formation of the ancient visual image system as harmonious and well-balanced which is supported by Empedodes' pluralistic imagery, Anaxagoras, Leucippus and Democritus' rnicroimagery and, primarily, by Plato's image conception