Athens Victorious : Democracy in Plato's Republic.

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Recco, Greg

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (263 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780739144305
0739144308

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Athens Victorious : Democracy in Plato's Republic.DDC classification:

320.1

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JC71 .P6 R38 2008

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Summary: Plato's Republic is typically thought to recommend a form of government that, from our current perspective, seems perniciously totalitarian. Athens Victorious demonstrates that Plato intended quite the opposite: to demonstrate the superiorityof a democratic constitution. Greg Recco provides a brilliant rereading of Book Eight. Often considered an anticlimax, Book Eight seems to be a mere catalogue of mistakes but is in fact one of Plato's most neglected literary creations: a mythic or epic restaging of the Peloponnesian War that pitted Sparta's militaristic oligarchy against Athens' democracy.

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Plato's Republic is typically thought to recommend a form of government that, from our current perspective, seems perniciously totalitarian. Athens Victorious demonstrates that Plato intended quite the opposite: to demonstrate the superiorityof a democratic constitution. Greg Recco provides a brilliant rereading of Book Eight. Often considered an anticlimax, Book Eight seems to be a mere catalogue of mistakes but is in fact one of Plato's most neglected literary creations: a mythic or epic restaging of the Peloponnesian War that pitted Sparta's militaristic oligarchy against Athens' democracy.

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