THE REPUBLIC

By: PLATO
Translated by: BENJAMIN JOWETT

Persons of the Dialogue:SOCRATES (the narrator), CEPHALUS, GLACON, THRASYMACHUS, ADEIMANTUS, CLEITOPHON, POLEMARCHUS
Scene:The scene is laid in the house of Cephalus at the Piraeus; and the whole dialogue is narrated by Socrates the day after it actually took place to Timaeus, Hermocrates, Critias, and a nameless person, who are introduced in the Timaeus.

CONTENTS

by Book

  1. Of Wealth, Justice, Moderation, and their Opposites
  2. The Individual, the State, and Education
  3. The Arts in Education
  4. Wealth, Poverty, and Virtue
  5. On Matrimony and Philosophy
  6. The Philosophy of Government
  7. On Shadows and Realities in Education
  8. Four Forms of Government
  9. On Wrong or Right Government, and the Pleasures of Each
  10. The Recompense of Life

This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, released August 1993
Hypertext Markup and textural corrections by Barry F. Vaughan
(Note: I have also included Stephanus page numbers [whole page numbers only]. However, it should be noted that these are approximations based on the Shorey, Grube, and Waterfield translations, not a strict following of the Stephanus text of 1578. They are intended only as a general guide for identifying portions of text within each book.)