Plato And The Tyrant by James Romm
Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy
A richly researched narrative that follows Plato’s idealistic engagement with the Sicilian court — his two journeys to Syracuse and his attempts to educate and reform the young tyrant Dionysius II — using ancient sources to show how philosophical theory collided with the brutal realities of power. The book traces the personalities and rivalries (notably the reformer Dion), the betrayals and miscalculations that turned Platonic hopes into political disaster, and uses that episode to illuminate broader questions about the limits of political philosophy, the moral ambiguities of advising rulers, and why ideas that flourish in the Academy often founder when faced with ambition, faction, and violence.
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