Twenty years after the Just City fractured, Apollo — living as a mortal — sails in pursuit of a stolen future.
Books mentioned in The Philosopher Kings (13)
The Republic by Plato: “I hadn’t read the Republic yet, but Ficino had told us Plato said that a Just City would hold justice and the pursuit of excellence as the highest good.”
Symposium by Plato: “unless you count the re-enactments of the Symposium on Plato’s birthday, but I still felt all those things.”
Timaeus by Plato: “they won’t know anything about the Just City except the legend of Atlantis in the Timaeus and Critias.”
Critias by Plato: “they won’t know anything about the Just City except the legend of Atlantis in the Timaeus and Critias.”
The Aeneid by Virgil: “Real storms can be bad for sailing ships. Like the one at the beginning of the Aeneid.””
Summa Tehologica by Thomas Aquinas: “making Ikaros translate Thomas Aquinas. The Summa Theologica is really long, and of course because Ikaros shouldn’t have had the book he could only work on it in private”
The Myrmidons by Aeschylus: “He did if he thought jealousy and grief and anger could be excluded because we never saw The Myrmidons.”
Oration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: “What a wondrous and sublime thing it is to be human, to be able to choose your state, whether among the beasts or among the angels. —GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Oration on the Awesomeness of Humanity (Oratio de Hominis Dignitate)”
Metamorphoses by Ovid: “Quid me mihi detrahis? —OVID, Metamorphoses, Book VI”
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim: “I had a queer obsession about justice. As though justice mattered. As though justice can really be distinguished from vengeance. It's only love that's any good. —ELIZABETH VON ARNIM, The Enchanted April”
Somebody Will by Ada Palmer: —ADA PALMER, "Somebody Will" Nothing befits a man more than discourse on the soul.
Iliad by Homer: “No Amorgians were mentioned in Homer's Catalog of Ships.”
Homeric Hymn to Apollo by Homer: “'How now shall I sing of you, though you are a worthy subject for song?' That's from the Homeric hymn to me—the same line is in both Homeric hymns to me actually, the Delphian and the Delian.”