What is the best possible society? How would its rulers govern and its citizens behave? Such questions are sometimes dismissed as distractions from genuine poli

This outstanding anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This standard historical textbook in the fiel

This set selects the best and most influential examples of Platonic scholarship published in English over the last fifty years, and adds translations of outstan

The essays in this volume provide a picture of the most interesting, puzzling, and provoking aspects of Plato's Republic.