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Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. This second edition includes a new introduction by Professor Bloom, whose careful translation and... read more
First Sentence
SOCRATES' NARRATION BEGINS: I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon, the son of Ariston, to say a prayer to the goddess, and also because I wanted to see how they would manage the festival, since they were holding it for the first time.
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Authors & Contributors
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- Plato (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Charles M. Bakewell (Editor)
- R. C. Cross (Translator)
- Ernest Rhys (Editor)
- T. M. Knox (Translator)
- E. V. Rieu (Editor)
- H. SPENS (Translator)
- I. A. Richards (Translator)
- Charles M. Bakewell (Introduction)
- Robin Waterfield (Translator)
- Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
- David James Vaughan (Translator)
- Richard W. Sterling (Translator)
- Leo Rauch (Translator)
- Simon Blackburn (Translator)
- William C. Scott (Translator)
- A. D. Lindsay (Translator)
- G. R. F. Ferrari (Translator)
- Tom Griffith (Translator)
- Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (Translator)
- G. M. A. Grube (Translator)
- D. J. Allan (Translator)
- C. D. C. Reeve (Translator)
- Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
- Robin Waterfield (Translator)
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