Plato: Republic 1-2.368c4

Republic, Plato’s best known and most frequently read dialogue, although receiving a flood of translations and philosophical analysis over the last 100 years, has in recent times been quite short of detailed commentaries.

Chris Emlyn-Jones is Emeritus Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University. His publications include (with W. Preddy) Plato: Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo (Loeb Classical Library, 2017) and Homer: Reading and Images (Duckworth, 1992).