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Description

1. 295 pages : genealogical table; 23 cm

Summary

1. "The Republic dramatizes Socrates' attempt to convince Plato's brother Glaucon that the just life of philosophy is preferable to the unjust life of tyranny. Jacob Howland argues that he failed, and that Glaucon joined his relatives Critias and Charmides in the brutal oligarchy of the Thirty Tyrants that governed Athens in the immediate aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. What went wrong? This is the guiding question of Glaucon's Fate, a book that will revolutionize our understanding of Plato's masterwork." --

Subject

1. Plato > Republic
2. Literary criticism
3. Plato > Republic > Criticism, Textual
4. Republic (Plato)
5. Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

1. Literary criticism.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction: Saving the myth : the epic struggle and cosmic voyage of the 'Republic' -- 1. Glaucon's fate : the historical and literary evidence -- 2. Socrates' music : Glaucon and the measures of the 'Republic' -- 3. Tyranny, poetry, and science : Critias in the Fragments and the Dialogues -- 4. Channeling Critias : the road to Callipolis -- 5. Disgracing the song : the myths of Callipolis -- 6. Philosophy in eclipse : Socrates and the kings of Callipolis -- 7. Socrates reborn : myth, memory, and the salvation of philosophy.

Call number

1. JFE 19-6709

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Howland, Jacob, author.

Title

1. Glaucon's fate : history, myth, and character in Plato's republic / Jacob Howland.

Publisher

1. Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2018951844

ISBN

1. 9781589881341
2. 1589881346

Research call number

1. JFE 19-6709