The Music Of The Republic by Eva Brann

Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings

A collection of essays that reads Plato’s dialogues—especially the Republic—as a carefully composed education in harmony, showing how myth, poetry, rhythm, mathematics, and dialectic tune the soul and city toward justice. Blending close textual analysis with reflections on liberal education, it illuminates Socratic conversation, the dramatic form of the dialogues, and the tensions between philosophy, politics, and poetry, inviting readers to experience classical thought as a living guide to intellectual and civic life.

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