Index

Abderite 600C

Achaeans 389E, 390E, 393A, 393D, 394A

Achilles 388A, 390D n, 390E, 391A, 391C, 620A n

Adam, James 444B n, 511A n, 546B n

Adrasteia 451A

Aeschylus 361C, 362A, 379D n, 380A, 381C n, 383A, 391E n, 451A n, 522D n, 550C, 563C

Agamemnon 383A, 391A, 392D, 393E, 522D, 620B

Aglaion 439E

Ajax 468D, 620B

Alcibiades 494D n

Alcinous 614B

Alcmaeon 590A n

Almagest (Ptolemy) 529D n

ambushes 450A

Amphiaraus 361B n, 590A n

Anarcharsis the Scythian 600A

Antigone (Sophocles) 488A n

Anubis 399E n

Aphrodite 390A n, 390C, 620A n

Apollo 383A, 391A, 394A, 399E, 408B, 427B, 461E n, 469A n, 509C

Apology (Plato) 496C n, 557A n

Arcadia 565D

archers 439B

Archilochus 365C

Ardiaeus the Great 615C

Arendt, Hannah 517A n

Ares 390A n, 390C, 393A

Argos 381D, 393E

aristocracy 445D

Ariston 327A, 368A, 427C, 580C

Aristonymus 328B

Aristotle 436B n, 607D n

Armenia 614B n

Armenius 614B

Asclepius 405D, 406A, 406C, 407C, 407E, 408B, 599C

Asia Minor 614B n

astronomy 527D

Atalanta 620B

Athena 379D n, 380A

Athens 330A, 383A n, 404D, 409A n, 475D, 494D n

Atropos 617C, 620E

Autolycus 334B

barbarians 452C, 470C, 544D

barley 405E

bats 479C

bath attendants 344D

beginnings 377A

Bendis 354A, 475D n

Bias 335E

Bible, the 377D n

blushing 350D

boys 474D

Brann, Eva 327A n, 399E n

bronze 415A

Cadmus 414C n

calculating 522C

Cato 428A n

cave image 514A-517A

Cean 600C

censorship 389A n

Cephalus 328C

Cerberus 588C

Chalcedonian 328B

Chalestrean 430B

Charmantides the Paeanian 328B

Charondas 599E

checkers 422E n

cheese 405E

Chimaera 588C

Chiron 391C

Chryses 392D-393D

cithara 399D

city, greatest evil and greatest good for 462A-B; healthy or infected 372E; in speech 369A, 472E-473A, 592A-B; of beauty 527C; of pigs 372D; that’s most necessary 369D

Cleitophon 328B, 340A

cloaks 449B, 457A

Clotho 617C, 620E

Cocytus 387C

comedy 394D

Commentary on Plato’s Meno, A (Klein) 511A n, 528C n

contradiction, principle of 436B n

Corinthian 404D

corpses 439E

cosmos 616C n

couches 596E

courage 429A

Cratylus (Plato) 509D n

Creophylus 600B

Crete 452C, 519C n, 544C, 575D

Croesus 566C

Cronos 377E

Daedalus 529E

Damon 400B, 424C

Dante 428A n

death 386A

Decision of the Arms, The (Aeschylus) 383A n

delicacies 372C

Delphi 427B, 461E n, 469A n, 590A n

democracy, gives equality to equals and unequals alike 558C; gives rise to slavery and tyranny 563E-564A; makes fathers fear their sons 562E; most beautiful of polities 557C; a polity-bazaar 557E

depravity 487D

Descartes, Rene 525E n

dialectic 348B n, 531D, 534E

Diogenes Laertius 595B n

Diomedes 389E, 493D

Dionysus 475D

divided line 509D-511E

doctors 405A

dogs 375D, 416A, 451D, 466C, 469E

dolphins 453D

Dorian 399A

dragons 414C n

dreaming, in tyrannic soul becomes waking life 574D-575A; manifests disordered desires 572B; mistaking a likeness for thing itself 476C; relation of mathematics to being 533B-C; the way most people are governed 520C-D

drones 552C, 573A

drunkenness 363D, 403E

eagles 620B

echoes 492C

education, of Greece attributed to Homer 606E; not provided by Homer 600A-B; the one big and sufficient thing 423E; a turning around of the whole soul 518B-D

Egypt 399E n, 436A

eidos 402C n, 445C n, 476A n

Elements (Euclid) 527A n

Elysian Fields 519C n

Encomium of Helen 413B n

Epeius 620C

Er 614B, 621B

Eriphyle 590A

êthos 375C n

Euclid 527A n, 528C n

eugenics 410A

eunuchs 479C

Euripides 522D n, 568A, 568B n

Eurypylus 405E, 408A

Euthydemus 328B

Euthyphro (Plato) 428A n, 529E n

Everytribe 614B n

Fates, the 616C n, 617C

feast without delicacies 372C

feet 400A

fire 435A

flutes 399D, 601D

form 402C n

foxes 365C

gang of thieves 351C

gentlemen 490A

geometry 526C

Glaucon, always most courageous 357A; erotic 474D; knowledgeable about music 398E; victory-loving 548D

Glaucus 611C

gold 415A

good, no one content with the seeming 505D; over and above being 509B; what every soul pursues 505E

Gorgias (Plato) 348 n, 413B n, 494A n, 548A n

Great King 553C

Great Year 546C n

Greece 452C, 469B, 470C, 606E

Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra (Klein) 525A n

guardians 412D

Gyges 359D, 612B

gymnastics 376E, 403C, 452B

Hades 330D, 363C, 366A, 386B, 386C, 392A, 399E n, 519C n, 521C, 534C, 596C, 612B, 616A n, 619A

harmony 401D, 412A, 431E, 519E-520A

Hebrew 614B n

Hector 391B

hedgehogs 365C n

heedlessness 621A

Helen 586C

Hellespont 404C

Hephaestus 378D, 389A, 390C

Hera 378D, 381D, 390B

Heracleitus 375B n, 498A

Heracles 337A

Hermes 399E n

Hermus 566C

Herodicus 406A

Herodotus 548A n, 566C n, 586C n

Hesiod 363A, 364D n, 377D, 377E n, 390D n, 466C, 468E, 547A, 600D, 612B

Homer 334A, 363A, 364D n, 377D, 378D, 379C, 383A, 387B, 388A, 389A, 389E, 391A, 393B, 393D, 396E, 404B, 404C, 441B, 468C, 501B, 516D, 519C n, 545D, 595C, 598D, 599B, 605C, 606E, 607D, 612B

honor-loving part 581B

horses 328A, 467E

hunters 432B

Hydra 426E

idea 505A n

Iliad (Homer) 364D n, 379D n, 383A n, 386C n, 388A n, 389A n, 389E n, 390A n, 390D n, 391A n, 392D, 393A n, 405D n, 408A, 468D n, 501B n, 545E n, 547A n, 566D n, 616A n

imitation 392D

immortality of soul 608D-611A

Inachus 381D

injustice, complete 344A, 352C-D, 361A; within one person 351E, 444B

Ion (Plato) 598E n

Ionian 398E

iron 411A, 415A

irony 337A

Isles of the Blessed 519C, 540B

Ismenias the Theban 336A

Italy 599E

Ithaca 393B

Jupiter 617A n

judges, a sign of bad education 405A; good ones old 409B

justice, as a burden 364A; as a compromise 359A; as a harmony of the soul 443C-E; as doing what’s properly one’s own 433A-B; as helping friends and hurting enemies 332D; as skill at thievery 334B; as telling truth and paying debts 331D; as what’s advantageous to the stronger 338C; in a city in bigger letters 368D-369A

kingship 445D

Klein, Jacob 511A n, 525A n, 528C n

Lachesis 617C, 620D

laughter 388E, 451A, 606C

lawyers 405A

learning-loving part 581B

Lebanon 414C n

Leontius 439E

Lethe 621A, 621C

lie, appropriate only for rulers 389B; greatest about greatest things 377E; noble 414C; the true 382A-C; useful 382C-D

light 427D, 507E

lions 341C

Lives of the Philosophers (Diogenes Laertius) 595B n

longer road 435D, 504D, 515E

lottery 460A, 617D-E

lotus eaters 560C

love of learning and love of wisdom 376B

lutes 399C

Lycaean Zeus 565D

Lycurgus 599D

Lydia 566C n

Lydian 398E

Lysanias 330B

Lysias 328B

mandrakes 488C

marketplace 425C

Mars 617A n

Marsyas 399E

medical art, current 406A

Megara 368A

Memorabilia (Xenophon) 494D n

Menelaus 408A

Meno (Plato) 529E n

Menoetius 388C

Mercury 617A n

Midas 408B

Milesian 600A

mirrors 402B, 596D

Mixolydian 398E

moderation 389D, 430D

modes, musical 398E

money-loving part 581A

monkeys 620C

monsters 399E n

moon, the 364E, 617A n

More, Thomas 592B n

Musaeus 363C, 364E, 519C n

Mount Ida 391E

Muses 364E, 376E n, 399E n, 411D, 499D, 545D, 547A, 607A, 620A n

music, changes in style 424C; first education 376E; of supreme importance 401D

Music of the Republic, The (Brann) 399E n

mystery rites 366A

nakedness 452B

Necessity 616C, 617B, 621A

Niceratus 327C

Nicias 327C

nightingale 620A

Niobe 380A, 391E n

noble lie 485C n

number 522C

nursing 343A

Odysseus 334B, 390A n, 390D n, 414C n, 522D n, 620C

Odyssey (Homer) 363B n, 381C n, 386C n, 389D n, 390A n, 390D n, 393B, 414C n, 424B n, 441B n, 501B n, 516D n, 519C n, 544D n, 560C n, 566D n, 614B n, 620A n

old age, a release from insane masters 329C-D

oligarchy 550C

Olympian Zeus 583B

Olympics 465D, 581C n

opinion 477B

Orpheus 364E, 620A

oysters 521C

Paeanian 328B

painting 484C

Palamedes 522D

Pamphylia 614B, 615C

Pandarus 379E, 408A

Panopeus 620C

Panpipes 399C

Paris 501B n

Patroclus 388C, 391B, 406A

Pausanias 548A n

pederasty 403B

Peleus 391C

Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) 494D n, 548A n

Pelops 380A

Perdiccas 336A

Periander 336A

Pericles 400B n, 494D n

Perithous 391D

Persia 553C n

Phaedrus (Plato) 586C n, 621A n

Phaiakia 614B n

philosophers, devote themselves to what is 480A, 485B; have erotic desire for truth 499B; insatiable for learning 475C; need appropriate upbringing 492A-495C; need harmonious natures 410E; no city now worthy of 497B; no rest from evils until they rule 501E

philosophy 376B, 407C, 456A, 484A, 487C, 489A, 494A, 495B, 525B, 607B

Phocylides 407A-B

Phoenicea 414C, 436A

Phoenix 390E

Phrygian 399A

pigs 372D, 373C, 378A

piloting 488B

Pindar 331A, 365B, 408B, 457B n

Piraeus 327A, 328C, 439E

pirates 351C

Pittacus 335E

playfulness 396E, 537A

Plutus 554B n

Poetics (Aristotle) 607D n

poets, believed by some to know all things 598E; corrupt thinking of some hearers 595B; drawn toward petulant and variable characters 604E-605A; encourage self-pity 606B; hide themselves 393C; holy, wondrous, and pleasing 398A; the more poetic they are 387B; praise tyranny 568B

Polemarchus 327B, 449B

political philosophy 517A n

polity 397E, 424A

Polus 348E n

Polydamas 338C

Polyneices 590A n

Poseidon 391D

poverty and riches, both corrupting 421C-422A

Pramneian wine 405E

preludes 531D

Priam 388B

Prodicus the Cean 600C

Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus) 451A n

Protagoras 428A n, 600C

Protector, the 583B

Proteus 381C

Ptolemy 529D n

puppies 375A

Purgatory 428A n

Pythagoras 530D, 581C n, 600B

Pythia 461E, 540C

quarrel between philosophy and poetry 607B

rainbows 616B

Reeve, C.D.C. 509C n

rhythm 401D

rings 359E, 612B

ruler in precise speech 340E-341A

Sarpedon 388C

Saturn 617A n

satyr 399E n

sauces 404C

scorn 487A

Scylla 588C

Scythia 435E, 600A

Seriphean 329E

Seven against Thebes (Aeschylus) 361B n, 550C n

sex 329C, 403A

Shakespeare 377D n

shepherds and sheep 343B, 363B n

ship of “state” 488A-489A

Sicily 404D, 599E

silver 415A

Simonides 331D-335E, 489B n

Sirens 617C

slavery 547C, 577C

smells 584B

snakes 358B

Solon 536D, 599E

sophistry 492A

Sophocles 329B, 488A n, 522D n, 568B n

sorcerers 380D

Sparta 452C, 494D n, 545A, 548A n, 599D

Spercheius 391B

spiritedness 375A, 439E-441A

springboards 511B

statues 361D, 420D

steppingstones 511B

Stesichorus 586C

style 392C

Styx 387C

summer 350D

sun, the 508A, 516B, 617A n

swamps 405D

swans 620A

swarm 450B

sweating 350D

Symposium (Plato) 368A n, 494D n

Syracuse 327A n, 404D

Taliaferro, R. Catesby 530B n

Tartarus 616A

Telamon 620B

Thales the Milesian 600A

Thamyris 620A

Theaetetus (Plato) 476A

Theages 496B

Thebes 336A, 414C n, 590A n

Themis 379D n, 380A

Themistocles 329E

Theogony (Hesiod) 377E n

Thersites 620C

Theseus 391D

Thetis 381C, 383A

thievery 334B, 351C

thornbushes 616A

Thrace 327A, 435E

Thrasymachus 328B, 336B, 350D, 358B, 367A, 450A, 498C, 545B, 590D

Thucydides 494D n, 548A n

Timaeus (Plato) 617B n

timocracy 545C

tragedy 394D

tripartite soul 580D

Trojan Women (Euripides) 568B n

tropos 375C n

Troy 380A, 393B, 393E, 405D, 408A, 522D, 586C

tyranny 562A, 577D, 587E

Uranus 377E

utopia 592B n

Venus 617A n

victory-loving part 581B

virtues 353A-B, 428A n

war 373D-E, 422A, 466E, 470B

warriors 525B

waves 457B, 472A, 473C

weapons, borrowed 331C

White, John 389A n

wind 393D

wine 475A

wisdom 428B

wisdom-loving part 581B

witchcraft 602D

wolves 336D n, 415E, 416A, 565E

women, equally entitled to rule 540C; need same education as men 451E

Works and Days (Hesiod) 363B n, 364D n, 466C n, 469A n

wrestling 362D, 544B

Xenophon 494D n

Xerxes 336A

Young people 377B, 378D

Zeus 379D n, 380A, 383A, 390B, 391C, 391D, 391E, 469A n, 565D, 583B

Zodiac, the 617B n