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Ep. 121: Save the Republic, Turn Off Your Dang Phone

Young Heretics

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Plato's Voyage to Sicily

Sicily was an intersting place in the greek world because there were these greek colonies on it which had basically just never done the democracy thing. And when plato held forth on tyranny and maintained the interest of the ruler alone was not the best, he offended dionysius who exclaimed, you talk like an old dotdard, and you talk like a tyrant. At this, the tyrant grew furious, and at first was bent on puttig him to death. Rejoined platond.

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