Table of Contents

Preface Introduction
1. Preliminaries
2. Composition of Republic
3. Dramatic context, characters and structure
4. The cultural background
5. The arguments
  (a) Socrates and Cephalus
  (b) Socrates and Polemarchus
  (c) Socrates and Thrasymachus
  (d) Glaucon and Adeimantus
6. Conclusion
7. The text of this edition
Bibliography
Chronology of Plato’s Life and Works
Plato: Republic 1–2.368c4
Commentary
Index

About the Author

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).