The goddess Athene gathers thinkers from across history to build Plato's Republic for real, on an island.
Books mentioned in The Just City (15)
The Republic by Plato: “Well, some people are trying to set up Plato’s Republic.”
Symposium by Plato: “I had read all the Plato I had been allowed, which was only the Apology and the Symposium and the Lysis.”
Protagoras by Plato: “I read the Symposium and the Protagoras, and then I began the Republic.”
Iliad by Homer: “we knew all about the Trojan War—a version of the Iliad was one of our favorite books.”
Laws by Plato: “It’s in the Laws too.” I’d only recently read the Laws.”
Apology by Plato: ““I thought you were dead.” I had wept for him, reading the Apology.”
Phaedo by Plato: “It’s what Plato wrote in the Phaedo, isn’t it?”
Gorgias by Plato: “I'm going to be entirely self-indulgent and re-read the Gorgias," I said.”
Crito by Plato: Epigraph: 'Wherever you go, there are plenty of places where you will find a welcome; and if you choose to go to Thessaly, I have friends there who will make much of you and give you complete protection, so that no one in Thessaly can interfere with you.' —PLATO, CRITO
Lysis by Plato: “I had read all the Plato I had been allowed, which was only the Apology and the Symposium and the Lysis.”
Phaedrus by Plato: “Plato wrote this wonderful poetic dialogue called the Phaedrus in which Socrates makes speeches about love.”
The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault: Epigraph: 'Yes, I know, Plato; but if you always take the steps in threes, one day you will miss a cracked one.' —MARY RENAULT, THE LAST OF THE WINE
Dogs of Peace by Ada Palmer: Epigraph: 'The triremes which defended Greece at Salamis defended Mars too.' —ADA PALMER, DOGS OF PEACE
Submersible Moonphase by Jo Walton: Epigraph: 'If you could take that first step / You could dance with Artemis / Beside Apollo Eleven.' —JO WALTON, "SUBMERSIBLE MOONPHASE"
Telemachus by François Fénelon: “It happened to a bound copy of Aeschylus's Telemachus. (text attributes it in-story to Aeschylus, but the real published 'Telemachus' — a prose sequel to the Odyssey — is by Fénelon)”