The Republic (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

ix, [7], 622 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, red silk moire endpapers, pink ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the original Greek by Benjamin Jewett, with his introduction, analyses and summary, and with medallions cut on wood by Fritz Kredel. Plato's most well-known work, in which he presents his theory of political philosophy, explaining that the city is 'the soul writ large.' "Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was as much influenced by his thinking as by his apparently unjust execution."