The Republic on Iliad: “You know the first lines of the Iliad, in which the poet says that Chryses prayed Agamemnon to release his daughter, and that Agamemnon flew into a passion with him; whereupon Chryses, failing of his object, invoked the anger of the God against the Achaeans.”
The Republic on The Odyssey: “But in what follows he takes the person of Chryses, and then he does all that he can to make us believe that the speaker is not Homer, but the aged priest himself. And in this double form he has cast the entire narrative of the events which occurred at Troy and in Ithaca and throughout the Odyssey.”
Crito on Iliad: “'The third day hence to fertile Phthia shalt thou go.' (Homer, Il.)”
The Righteous Mind on The Republic: “Plato's Republic—one of the most influential works in the Western canon—is an extended argument that you should pick heads, for your own good.”
The Philosopher Kings on The Republic: “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.”
Tono-Bungay on The Republic: “I remember that among others I tried a translation of Plato's "Republic" then, and found extraordinarily little interest in it; I was much too young for that; but "Vathek"--"Vathek" was glorious stuff.”
Utopia on The Republic: “if I should either propose such things as Plato has contrived in his 'Commonwealth,' or as the Utopians practise in theirs”
Politics on The Republic: “So that when Socrates, in Plato's Republic, says that a city is necessarily composed of four sorts of people, he speaks elegantly but not correctly, and these are, according to him, weavers, husbandmen, shoe-makers, and builders; he then adds, as if these were not sufficient, smiths, herdsmen for…”