Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece

By James Romm

Categories: History, Religion & Spirituality

James Romm's 2025 history of Plato's ill-fated attempts to tutor and reform the tyrant Dionysius II of Syracuse, and how that experience shaped the Republic and his political philosophy.

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