Title Athens Victorious : Democracy in Plato's Republic.

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Summary	Plato's Republic is typically thought to recommend a form of government that, from our current perspective, seems perniciously totalitarian. Athens Victorious demonstrates that Plato intended quite the opposite: to demonstrate the superiorityof a democratic constitution. Greg Recco provides a brilliant rereading of Book Eight. Often considered an anticlimax, Book Eight seems to be a mere catalogue of mistakes but is in fact one of Plato's most neglected literary creations: a mythic or epic restaging of the Peloponnesian War that pitted Sparta's militaristic oligarchy against Athens' democracy.
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Subject	Plato.
	Plato.
	Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
	Democracy.
	Greece -- Athens.
	History.
Chronological Term	To 1500
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Recco, Greg. Athens Victorious : Democracy in Plato's Republic. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., ©2008 9780739123270
ISBN	9780739144305 (electronic book)
	0739144308 (electronic book)