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Sacred Texts  Classics  Plato 

THE REPUBLIC

by Plato 360 B.C.

translated by Benjamin Jowett New York, C. Scribner's sons [1871]


THE INTRODUCTION

ARGUMENT
CHARACTERS

BOOK I

SOCRATES - POLEMARCHUS - GLAUCON - ADEIMANTUS
GLAUCON - CEPHALUS - SOCRATES
CEPHALUS - SOCRATES - POLEMARCHUS
SOCRATES - POLEMARCHUS
SOCRATES - POLEMARCHUS - THRASYMACHUS
SOCRATES - THRASYMACHUS - GLAUCON
SOCRATES - CLEITOPHON - POLEMARCHUS - THRASYMACHUS
SOCRATES - THRASYMACHUS
SOCRATES - GLAUCON
SOCRATES - GLAUCON - THRASYMACHUS

BOOK II

GLAUCON
SOCRATES - GLAUCON
ADEIMANTUS -SOCRATES
ADEIMANTUS
SOCRATES - ADEIMANTUS
SOCRATES - GLAUCON
SOCRATES - ADEIMANTUS

BOOK III

SOCRATES - GLAUCON

BOOK IV

SOCRATES - GLAUCON

BOOK V

SOCRATES - ADEIMANTUS - GLAUCON - THRASYMACHUS

BOOK VI

SOCRATES - ADEIMANTUS
GLAUCON - SOCRATES

BOOK VII

BOOK VIII

SOCRATES - ADEIMANTUS

BOOK IX

SOCRATES - GLAUCON

BOOK X

SOCRATES