Follow Athens to Plato's Republic

Follow Athens to Plato's Republic, step by step

On Explore, with Athens selected, tap Start the free journey. It has three steps, the city, Socrates and the first reading of The Republic, and each step opens the real place, connection or reading.

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Begin with the place

Read the Athens page, its names and the periods the source records.

Meet Socrates

The connection explains that Socrates left no writings and that Plato's dialogues are one literary portrait of him.

Read the opening of The Republic

The first reading is free, in Benjamin Jowett's translation of 1892.

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