Republic (English Version)

Author: (Ancient Greece) Plato
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: This new translation of one of the great works of Western political thought is based on the belief that when Plato chose the dialogue form for his writing, he intended these dialogues to sound like conversations—even though conversations of a philosophical sort. In addition to a vivid, dignified, and accurate rendition of Plato's text, the student and general reader will find many aids to comprehension in this volume: an introduction that assesses the cultural background to the Republic, its place within political philosophy, and its general arguments; succinct notes in the body of the text; an analytical summary of the work; a full glossary of proper names; a chronology of the text; an analytical summary of the work's content; a full glossary of proper names; a chronology of important events; and a guide to further reading. The result is an accomplished and accessible edition of this seminal work, suitable for philosophers, classicists, as well as historians of political thought at all levels. G.R.F. FERRARI is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Listening to the Cicadas: A Study of Plato's Phaedo. TOM GRIFFITH has also translated Plato's Symposium, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Phaedrus.