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February 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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It's here! My little 'Plato: a civic life', beautifully produced by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way, especially @josephinequinn.bsky.social and Angie Hobbs for the generous quotes, and to Malcolm Schofield, who made Plato possible for me.
A book sits on a wooden shelf with a vase behind it. On the red cover three Doric columns are topped by the texts Plato: A civic life: Carol Atack Back cover of the book. On top of a Doric column sit two texts: 'Philosophy is just the beginning in Carol Atack's page-turner. From Plato’s own travels and troubles to the strange life and peculiar death of his teacher Socrates, the struggles of his city at the hands of enemies at home and abroad to the efforts of its citizens to make sense of things in an era of unending crisis, this is a gripping account of Classical Athens under siege told through the sharp eyes and shifting ideas of its most notable son. ' Josephine Quinn, Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford and author of How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History 'A richly enjoyable and illuminating account of Plato's life and its social and political contexts. Atack handles the wealth of scholarship with a deft touch: she provides considered support for her interpretations but never obscures the main, vivid narrative, into which she skilfully weaves a number of Plato's key ideas and arguments. ' Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield
October 25, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM