Plato's Republic (Books VIII and IX): A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
New Books in Ancient History
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The Republic: A Dramatized History of Socrates' Early Dialogues
In the Republic, we get dramatized this shift from those early dialogues to Plato's own more mature speculations. The first book of the Republic proceeds more or less like a typical early socratic dialogue. But then Socrates notices that he himself has been guilty of a kind of vain curiosity.
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