"Robin Waterfield has produced an idiomatic, lively, and thoroughly up-to-date Englishing of Plato's Republic....Waterfield...succeeds beautifully...in making engaging English out of Plato's Greek. For this teachers of Greek philosophy owe him gratitude."Ancient Philosophy
"Waterfield's translation is certainly the best of the Republic available. It is accurate and informed by deep philosophical understanding of the text; unlike other translations it combines these virtues with an impressive ability to render Plato into English that is as varied and expressive as is Plato's Greek." Professor Julia Annas, University of Arizona"Translated in an easy, accessible style, as though these were people, not textbooks speaking. The introduction is lucid and complete."E.N. Genovese, San Diego State University"An excellent translation and introduction. The best I have seen."Tom Christenson, Capital University“The fantastical worlds, the science fiction worlds offer a place where they can explore…” Light Bringer, the 6th installment in Pierce Brown’s Red Rising series, will bring fans back to beloved worlds and characters as the space opera saga hurtles forward. Brown joins us to talk about what other works inspired these books, how this […]
In The Just City, the gods are real—the Greek ones, at least (the jury’s still out on Jesus and Buddha). Athena, goddess of wisdom, decides one day to put a grand thought experiment into action: she founds a city, one constructed and operated on the framework laid out by Plato in The Republic. She gathers […]