Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    Classical · Greek

    Republic

    Plato

    Plato's design for the just city and the just soul, the most influential book in the history of political philosophy, in English translation from the Perseus Digital Library. Translated by Paul Shorey.

    Chapters
    10
    Variants
    20
    Genre
    Philosophy
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Book 1prose
    2. 02Book 2prose
    3. 03Book 3prose
    4. 04Book 4prose
    5. 05Book 5prose
    6. 06Book 6prose
    7. 07Book 7prose
    8. 08Book 8prose
    9. 09Book 9prose
    10. 10Book 10prose

    In the atlas

    fully mapped

    Figures105

    Glaucon · Socrates · Homer · Adeimantus · Zeus · Thrasymachus · Hesiod · Apollo · Agamemnon · Polemarchus

    Ideas101

    Justice · Injustice · Tyranny · the soul · Astronomy · Community of women and children · Democracy · Dialectic · Gymnastics · Myth of metals

    Places16

    Troy · Hades · Islands of the Blest · Argos · Cephalus's house · Chalcedon · Cocytus · Ida · Ithaca · Olympia

    Groups47

    Guardians · The Multitude · Barbarians · Guardians/Philosopher-Rulers · Muses · Poets · Rulers · The gods · Beggars and Criminals · Cobblers and other craftsmen

    Events14

    Allegory of the Cave · Cephalus's sacrifice · Dionysiac festivals · Festival procession for the Goddess · Founding of a city · Hera disguised as a priestess · Megara · Reward ceremony for the valiant · Selection and Education of Rulers · Supposititious son parable

    Objects12

    Ring of Gyges · Bronze horse with a corpse · Dice · Mandragora · Mirror · gold bribe · shadows on the cave wall · the archer's bow · the corpses at the place of public execution · the ship

    Animals

    Horses · Dog · Hounds · Hunting dogs · Hydra · Lions · The Drone · pedigree cocks

    79 citations · 198 themes · 550 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.