William H. F. Altman teaches Latin and World History at E. C. Glass, a public high school in Lynchburg, Virginia.

An Introduction to Plato's Republic: Inside and Outside the Text 1
Part 1 The First Words of Plato's ???? te?/a
Chapter 1: ?at?ß??
Chapter 2: ????
Chapter 3: µet? G?a??????
Chapter 4: µet? G?a??????
Chapter 5: t?? ???st????
Part 2 Challenges
Chapter 6: Cephalus and the Meaning of Life
Chapter 7: Polemarchus Meets Appearance and Reality
Chapter 8: Thrasymachus and the City of Good Men Only
Chapter 9: Glaucon's Challenge to Socrates
Chapter 10: The Challenge of Adeimantus to Plato
Part 3 The Shorter Way
Chapter 11: Introduction to Methodology
Chapter 12: Methodology II: Hypotheses
Chapter 13: Methodology III: Images
Chapter 14: Looking Out for Number One
Chapter 15: Making Friends with Thrasymachus
Part 4 The Longer Way
Chapter 16: The Speech to the Guardians
Chapter 17: Justice and the Good on the Divided Line
Chapter 18: The Idea of the Good and Plato's Theory of Forms
Chapter 19: An Intellectual History of the Return
Chapter 20: Whistling a Tune on the Way Down
Part 5 The Firesticks
Chapter 21: 432d1-435a4
Chapter 22: Two Jobs for One Man: Beyond the Tripartite Soul
Chapter 23: The Third Wave of Paradox
Chapter 24: Plato's Letters
Chapter 25: Untimely Meditations on the Idea of Justice
Part 6 Democracy and Education
Chapter 26: Genetic Fictions
Chapter 27: The Equality of the Sexes
Chapter 28: Higher Education: Why the Good is not the One
Chapter 29: Reading Order Revisited
Chapter 30: The Age of Heroes
Part 7 Choices
Chapter 31: The Sewer of Romulus
Chapter 32: The Perfectly Bearable Lightness of Being
Chapter 33: Coming Up and Going Down
Chapter 34: Plato the Imitator
Chapter 35: Odysseus or Achilles?
Bibliography
Index locorum
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