Title: The Republic
Author: Plato
Translator: B. Jowett
Subjects: Classic; Political; Utopian
The Republic has been the most important, famous and widely read dialogue and work of political writing. It contains Socratic dialogue about the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man. Must read political work of all time.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE
Socrates, who is the narrator.
Glaucon.
Adeimantus.
Polemarchus.
Cephalus.
Thrasymachus.
Cleitophon.
And others who are mute auditors.
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.
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