This set selects the best and most influential examples of Platonic scholarship published in English over the last fifty years, and adds translations of outstan

The essays in this volume provide a picture of the most interesting, puzzling, and provoking aspects of Plato's Republic.

The Republic is Plato's most complete and incisive work – a detailed study of the problem of how best to ensure that justice exists in a real society, rather

Plato's Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-