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The introduction highlights the work’s breadth, weaving ethics, politics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, and related themes into a unified account of human nature and reality. The preface explains the translation’s aims, acknowledges interpretive choices, and clarifies a stylistic decision to render Socratic reported speech as direct dialogue.","PLATO Republic  \nPLATO Republic  \nTranslated from the New Standard Greek Text, with Introduction, by  \nC. D. C. REEVE  \nHackett Publishing Company, Inc.  \nIndianapolis/Cambridge  \nCopyright © 2004 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved  \n08 07 06 05 2 3 4 5 6 7 8  \nFor further information, please address: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.  \nP.O. Box 44937  \nIndianapolis, Indiana 46244-0937 [www.hackettpublishing.com](www.hackettpublishing.com)  \nCover design by Abigail Coyle Interior design by Jennifer Plumley Composition by William Hartman  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nPlato.  \n[Republic. English]  \nRepublic / translated from the new standard Greek text, with introduction, by C.D.C. Reeve.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.  \nISBN 0-87220-737-4 (hardcover)—ISBN 0-87220-736-6 (pbk.)  \n1. Political science—Early works to 1800. 2 Utopias. I. Reeve, C.D.C., 1948– II. Title.  \nJC71 .P513 2004 321'.07—dc22  \n2004013418  \nISBN-13: 978-0-87220-737-0 (cloth)  \nISBN-13: 978-0-87220-736-3 (paper)  \neISBN: 978-1-60384-013-2 (ebook)  \nFor Daddy on his 88th birthday, with much love.  \nContents  \nPreface viii  \nIntroduction ix  \nSelect Bibliography xxviii  \nSynopsis xxx  \nNote to the Reader xxxiv  \nTHE REPUBLIC  \nBook 1 1  \nBook 2 36  \nBook 3 66  \nBook 4 103  \nBook 5 136  \nBook 6 176  \nBook 7 208  \nBook 8 238  \nBook 9 270  \nBook 10 297  \nGlossary of Terms 327  \nGlossary and Index of Names 330  \nGeneral Index 338  \nPreface  \nI have been a student of the Republic since I first encountered it as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1988 I published a book about it (Philosopher-Kings) . Four years later, I published a revision of G. M. A. Grube’s excellent translation. Perhaps I should have rested content with that, but my desire to have a Republic translation of my own proved too strong. The fruit of five years’work, it is now in print. Naturally, I hope it improves on existing translations. If so, I have their producers largely to thank. Certainly, I have ransacked them for assistance. Tom Griffith has helped greatly, Robin Waterfield too, and also (in the case of Books 5 and 10) Stephen Halliwell. Over the years, my respect has grown for earlier translations—for that of George Grube, from which I learned a huge amount, but also for those of Allan Bloom and Paul Shorey.  \nEvery translation, even the most self-consciously and flat-footedly slavish, is somewhat interpretative.There is no avoiding that. But I have tried to make this one as uninterpretative and close to the original as possible. One conscious deviation from strict accuracy, however, will be obvious at a glance. The Republic is largely in reported speech. Socrates is relating a conversation he had in the past. But I have cast his report as an explicit dialogue in direct speech, with identified speakers. In the Theaetetus, Plato has Eucleides adopt a similar stratagem.“This is the book,” he says to Terpsion;“You see, I have written it out like this: I have not made Socrates relate the conversation as he related it to me, but I represent him as speaking directly to the persons with whom he said he had this conversation.” Decades of teaching the Republic have persuaded me that the minimal loss in literalness involved in adopting Eucleides’ stratagem is more than made up for in readability and intelligibility. I renew my gratitude to John Cooper for his always judicious advice, and to Paul Woodruff for his. I am also grateful to the publisher’s readers, Christopher Rowe and the team of Patrick Miller and Christopher Childers.The latter—in particular—saved me from numerous errors and omissions. My debt to their care and scholarship is unrepayable. 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