Interesting document: Breith Báis ar Eagnuidhe: trí cómhráidthe d’ár cheap Platón: Apologia, Critón, Phaedón (1929) by Seoirse Mac Laghmhainn.
Plato’s Apology, Crito and Phaedo rendered in Irish under a title translating as ‘Judgement of Death on a Sage’.

Albrecht Koschorke's little book on the poetics of Mein Kampf, who it spoke to and how, captures exactly this motive for immersion in fantastical rhetoric one knows is false drb.ie/articles/lit...

Yes, the transitional phase (what Weberians would call the "carrier") is neoliberalism. drb.ie/articles/the...

Yes, life spanned most of 11C., active in Egypt mostly, he compiled a book of aphorism and sayings attributed to ancient philosophers. And apparently a brief Plato bio:

The best Plato anecdote. In Alice Swift Riginos, Platonica (Brill, 1976), 152

"The most important insight from Turchin’s predictive models for the contemporary United States is that ‘it is too late to avert our current crisis’....We will see violence and political disorder in the next decade, and that much the United States can no longer avoid"
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