Classical · Greek
Republic
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 chaptersin the atlas
fully mappedFigures— 10 of 109
Glaucon · Socrates · Homer · Adeimantus · Thrasymachus · Zeus · Hesiod · Apollo · Agamemnon · Polemarchus
Ideas— 10 of 100
Justice · Injustice · The soul · Tyranny · Astronomy · Community of women and children · Democracy · Gymnastics · Myth of metals · Oligarchy
Places— 10 of 17
Troy · Hades · Islands of the Blest · Argos · Cephalus's house · Chalcedon · Cocytus · Ida · Ithaca · Olympia
Groups— 10 of 47
Guardians · The multitude · Barbarians · Guardians/Philosopher-Rulers · Muses · Poets · The gods · The ruler · Beggars and Criminals · Cobblers and other craftsmen
Events— 10 of 14
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
Objects— 10 of 11
Ring of Gyges · Bronze horse with a corpse · Dice · Mandragora · gold bribe · shadows on the cave wall · the archer's bow · the corpses at the place of public execution · the ship · the sun
79 citations · 198 themes · 550 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.
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