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Every work of the authors in the library’s orbit, in the reader or not: who wrote it, when, how it survives, where it can be read, and how it connects to other works. 82 so far. Where a field has not been checked against its source, it says so.
Checked on 2026-10-31
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TraditionAll (7)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (6)Sufism (0)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (1)Further afield (0)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)
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Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
RepublicΠολιτείαPlatoCounsel and governanceArchaic and classical GreekGreekIn the reader

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Republic

Πολιτεία

Politeia

Plato (c. 428–348 BCE)

Greek sources · Counsel and governance · Greek · Archaic and classical Greek · In the reader

The city as the soul written large, and the philosopher fit to rule because reason governs. No full Arabic translation is attested; SEP records one translated passage (VI 506d–509b).

Attribution
authentic checked in This site: app/src/lib/catalogue.ts (texts in the reader)
Date
c. 375 BCE (draft; unchecked), Athens (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • B. Jowett, The Republic (1892), as shown alongside the Greek in the reader · public domain checked in This site: app/src/lib/catalogue.ts (texts in the reader)
  • J. Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (1902); S. R. Slings OCT (2003) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Jowett (1892) · en · public domain checked in This site: app/src/lib/catalogue.ts (texts in the reader)
Read it herePartial: the reader holds Books VI–VII (the Sun, the Line and the Cave) only.