Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 The Protreptic Rhetoric of the Republic
- 2 The Place of the Republic in Plato’s Political Thought
- 3 Rewriting the Poets in Plato’s Characters
- 4 Wise Guys and Smart Alecks in Republic 1 and 2
- 5 Justice and Virtue: The Republic’s Inquiry into Proper Difference
- 6 The Noble Lie
- 7 The Three-Part Soul
- 8 Eros in the Republic
- 9 The Utopian Character of Plato’s Ideal City
- 10 Philosophy, the Forms, and the Art of Ruling
- 11 Sun and Line: The Role of the Good
- 12 Beginning the “Longer Way”
- 13 The City-Soul Analogy
- 14 The Unhappy Tyrant and the Craft of Inner Rule
- 15 What Is Imitative Poetry and Why Is It Bad?
- 16 The Life-and-Death Journey of the Soul: Interpreting the Myth of Er
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- Index of Names and Subjects
- Series List
Bibliography
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 The Protreptic Rhetoric of the Republic
- 2 The Place of the Republic in Plato’s Political Thought
- 3 Rewriting the Poets in Plato’s Characters
- 4 Wise Guys and Smart Alecks in Republic 1 and 2
- 5 Justice and Virtue: The Republic’s Inquiry into Proper Difference
- 6 The Noble Lie
- 7 The Three-Part Soul
- 8 Eros in the Republic
- 9 The Utopian Character of Plato’s Ideal City
- 10 Philosophy, the Forms, and the Art of Ruling
- 11 Sun and Line: The Role of the Good
- 12 Beginning the “Longer Way”
- 13 The City-Soul Analogy
- 14 The Unhappy Tyrant and the Craft of Inner Rule
- 15 What Is Imitative Poetry and Why Is It Bad?
- 16 The Life-and-Death Journey of the Soul: Interpreting the Myth of Er
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- Index of Names and Subjects
- Series List
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- The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic , pp. 474 - 510Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007