Authoritative and idiomatic, this translation has already established an impressive foothold in the college market.

No one should think of going to a liberal arts college without reading Plato's Republic. It is one of the basic books of the European mind and culture, now freshly and readably rendered by Sterling and Scott. I envy the reader who sits in on these conversations for the first time, and with such a readable text. -- John Ciardi The best translation of the Republic or a Platonic dialogue I know. It gives the reader who has no Greek... a sense of the powerful and delicate style of the dialogue and it is not only a success for Plato's inimitable Greek; it is brilliant in its translations of the Greek poetry quoted in the course of the Republic. -- Diskin Clay, Duke University This new version of Plato's Republic... is founded on a sensitively accurate and highly readable fusion of form and content, style and substance. Plato emerges, as he should, as both thinker and philosophical poet-something that cannot be said of competing versions. -- William Arrowsmith, Emory University

William C. Scott is Humanities Research Professor at Dartmouth College. Richard W. Sterling is Professor of Government Emeritus at Dartmouth College.