The Republic: A New Translation

by Plato, William C. Scott, Richard W. Sterling

Overview

"I envy the reader who sits in on these conversations for the first time, and with such a readable text."—John Ciardi

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393314670
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	08/17/1996
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

William C. Scott is Humanities Research Professor at Dartmouth College.

Richard W. Sterling is Professor of Government Emeritus at Dartmouth College.

Read an Excerpt

Then if anyone at all is to have the privilege of lying, the rulers of the State should be the persons; and they, in their dealings either with enemies or with their own citizens, may be allowed to lie for the public good. But nobody else should meddle with anything of the kind.

Editorial Reviews

This new version of Plato's Republic... is founded on a sensitively accurate and highly readable fusion of form and content, style and substance. Plato emerges, as he should, as both thinker and philosophical poet—something that cannot be said of competing versions.”

William Arrowsmith

The best translation of the Republic or a Platonic dialogue I know. It gives the reader who has no Greek... a sense of the powerful and delicate style of the dialogue and it is not only a success for Plato's inimitable Greek; it is brilliant in its translations of the Greek poetry quoted in the course of the Republic.”

Diskin Clay

No one should think of going to a liberal arts college without reading Plato's Republic. It is one of the basic books of the European mind and culture, now freshly and readably rendered by Sterling and Scott. I envy the reader who sits in on these conversations for the first time, and with such a readable text.”

John Ciardi