Republic
The revised edition of Grube’s classic translation of Plato’s Republic follows and furthers Grube’s noted success in combining fidelity to Plato’s text with natural readability while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship and insights into Plato’s thought since the publication of the first edition in 1974. Divided into ten books, each book of The “Republic” addresses different aspects of the ideal state. In Book I, Socrates engages in a dialogue with several characters, including Glaucon and Adeimantus, to examine the...
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