CONTENTS

Preface

A Note on Translations and Editions

Introduction

1 Convention and Amoralism

2 Might and Right

3 The Ring of Gyges

4 The Analogy

5 The Elite and the Artist

6 Glaucon’s Challenge

7 The Man of Spirit

8 Specialization

9 Knowledge and Belief

10 The Myth of the Cave

11 The Religious Interpretation

12 The Poetic Interpretation

13 The Scientific Interpretation

14 Disorderly Cities; Disorderly People

15 The Exile of the Poets

16 The Farewell Myth

Notes

Further Reading

Index