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Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
By James Romm
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By James Romm
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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
“[E]xcellent . . . a deft and engaging work of history, philosophy and biography . . . a kind of intellectual thriller.” —Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post
From an eminent historian and classicist, an incisive portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested by violent events in the most powerful Greek city of the era.
Plato is one of history’s most influential thinkers, the “sublime philosopher” whose wri...