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Carol Atack, "Plato: A Civic Life" (Reaktion, 2025)

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Why write a civic biography of Plato?

Morteza asks why a life-focused book on Plato is valuable; Carol explains the rarity and challenges of contextualizing Plato as a person within his historical milieu.

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