Plato

If an actor, that is, a man with the ability to imitate all things should come to our city, wishing to show us his creations, we would bow to him as to something sacred, amazing and pleasant, but we will say that such a man does not exist in our city and that it is not allowed to become like that here, and we will send him to another state, anointing his head with fragrances and crowning him with a woolen band.

Plato, The Republic, fourth century BCE