Plato and the Tyrant

“[E]xcellent . . . a deft and engaging work of history, philosophy and biography . . . a kind of intellectual thriller.” —Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post

From an eminent historian and classicist, an incisive portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested by violent events in the most powerful Greek city of the era.