The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic » (1st Edition)

G. R. F. Ferrari is professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Provides a fresh and comprehensive account of the most frequently read work of Greek philosophy.

Contributors     ix
Abbreviations     xiii
Editor's Introduction     xv
The Protreptic Rhetoric of the Republic   Harvey Yunis     1
The Place of the Republic in Plato's Political Thought   Christopher Rowe     27
Rewriting the Poets in Plato's Characters   David K. O'Connor     55
Wise Guys and Smart Alecks in Republic 1 and 2   Roslyn Weiss     90
Justice and Virtue: The Republic's Inquiry into Proper Difference   Aryeh Kosman     116
The Noble Lie   Malcolm Schofield     138
The Three-Part Soul   G. R. F. Ferrari     165
Eros in the Republic   Paul W. Ludwig     202
The Utopian Character of Plato's Ideal City   Donald R. Morrison     232
Philosophy, the Forms, and the Art of Ruling   David Sedley     256
Sun and Line: The Role of the Good   Nicholas Denyer     284
Beginning the "Longer Way"   Mitchell Miller     310
The City-Soul Analogy   Norbert Blossner     345
The Unhappy Tyrant and the Craft of Inner Rule   Richard D. Parry     386
What Is Imitative Poetry and Why Is It Bad?   JessicaMoss     415
The Life-and-Death Journey of the Soul: Interpreting the Myth of Er   Stephen Halliwell     445
Bibliography     474
Index of Passages     511
Index of Names and Subjects     527