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Jacob Howland on Glaucon's Fate & Plato's Republic

The New Thinkery

CHAPTER

The Sea Glauchus

There's an interesting reference to the sea glauchus, which is actually sort of what I was thinking of in the cover of my book. In Athenian law, you could be indemnified in this way by the victim himself before he died. We can sort of see these contests, constant reference to contest. And it makes me think of critics and comedies. On one hand, again, on his mother's side, the Timocrat, whom Adam X is compares walk on to, is a guy who has a noble father who looks like Socrates but doesn't care about injustice. He's too busy living his own life to worry about, you know, honor and things like this

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