Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    philosophy · 4th century BCE · 3 crossings

    Republic

    ΠολιτείαPoliteia

    Plato, in Greek

    The design of the just city and the just soul. The Arabs philosophized with it secondhand; the West got it whole only when Ficino's Latin Plato was printed in 1484.

    The chain

    c. 380 BCE–370 BCE Greek original

    written by Plato in Athens

    1. c. 1469–1484 Greek Latin translation attested

      translated by Marsilio Ficino in Florence

      Part of Ficino's complete Latin Plato for the Medici circle, printed at Florence in 1484: the first time the West could read the whole Republic since antiquity.

    2. 1871 Greek English translation attested

      translated by Benjamin Jowett in Oxford

      The Victorian Plato that schooled the anglophone world; earlier complete English versions (Spens 1763, Taylor and Sydenham 1804) never had its reach.

    3. 1930–1935 Greek English translation attested

      translated by Paul Shorey in London

      The Loeb facing-page English; the text carried in this library.