Plato's Republic is typically thought to recommend a form of
government that, from our current perspective, seems perniciously
totalitarian. Athens Victorious demonstrates that Plato intended
quite the opposite: to demonstrate the superiority of a democratic
constitution. Greg Recco provides a brilliant rereading of Book
Eight. Often considered an anticlimax, Book Eight seems to be a
mere catalogue of mistakes but is in fact one of Plato's most
neglected literary creations: a mythic or epic restaging of the
Peloponnesian War that pitted Sparta's militaristic oligarchy
against Athens' democracy. In Plato's reenactment, Athens wins.
Recco argues that the values identified in Book Eight as
distinctively democratic were the very ones that served as the
unannounced touchstones of moral and political judgment throughout
the dialogue. Athens Victorious is an important reinterpretation of
The Republic. It is an excellent resource for students and scholars
of Classical studies, philosophy, and political theory.
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