Table of Contents

Introduction; Plato: Republic Book I; Commentary.

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First commentary to treat the literary and philosophical aspects equally alongside providing help with Plato's language and style.

About the Author

DAVID SANSONE is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published on topics ranging from Bronze-Age iconography to the poetry of John Milton and the music dramas of Richard Wagner. He specializes in Greek language and literature and is the author of Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1988), Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric (2012), Ancient Greek Civilization (2016) and Plato: Menexenus (Cambridge, 2020).