Product Details
ISBN: 9780486411217
Category: Classical, Early & Medieval
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2000-02-01
Series: Thrift Edition Ser.
Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC.
Country of origin: USA
Pages: 320
Pagination: 277 pages
Dimensions (mm): 203 x 133 x 17
Weight: 245g
The Republic
Famous philosophical treatise of the 4th century BC concerns itself chiefly with the idea of justice, as well as such Platonic theories as that of ideas, the criticism of poetry, and the philosopher's role. Source of the famous cave myth and prototype for other imaginary commonwealths, including those of Cicero, St. Augustine, and More. Benjamin Jowett translation.