
Ep. 086 - On Plato’s Republic
Magnus Podcast: Conversations from the Catacombs of Liberal Education
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The Republic of Athens
The way Plato writes it winds up being the argument and the action of the dialogue are complementary. Over the course of the fifth century BC Athens rose to be a power competing with Sparta in leading the different Greek cities. We're in a cold war for a period of time and then a hot war which ended in 404 BC the very end of the the fifth century with Sparta's victory.
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