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Plato and the Tyrant The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece

Romm James
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781324093183
Publisert
2025-06-24
Utgiver
WW Norton & Co; WW Norton & Co
Vekt
627 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter
Romm James

Om bidragsyterne

James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and editor of the Ancient Lives biography series from Yale University Press. He is the author of several other studies of Greek and Roman history, and his reviews and essays appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Review of Books.

Plato and the Tyrant The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece

Romm James
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
Romm James
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
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"An intellectual thriller …. a deft and engaging work of history, philosophy and biography …. Romm relates this history — and introduces readers to a colorful cast of sycophantic courtiers, eccentric philosophers and defiant poets — with flair. He is an equally admirable guide to the many controversies in which the affair is mired."

- Becca Rothfeld - The Washington Post,

"This is a work of history, but it is as compelling as any novel… Romm does a superb job of imaginatively reconstructing the backstory to a philosophical masterpiece."

- Tim Whitmarsh - Literary Review,

"[A] finely sifted story …. includes abundant historical and social context …. Mr. Romm’s portrait of Plato as a scheming, often bumbling political player will be intriguingly new to most readers."

- Timothy Farrington - The Wall Street Journal,

Many people know something of Plato’s works, yet few are familiar with his life outside of his writings. In Plato and the Tyrant, acclaimed classicist James Romm uses a little-known set of Plato’s personal letters to introduce the man behind the ethereal image and to explore the formation of his most famous work, Republic. In the second half of his life, an already famous Plato involved himself in the affairs of the two Dionysii, a father and son who ruled Syracuse, at that time the greatest power in the Greek world. Plato’s interventions in the violent contest between Dionysius the Younger and his brother-in-law, Dion—with whom Plato may have had a long love affair—were the backdrop and perhaps the motivation for his masterwork. In a thrilling narrative, Romm captures how Plato’s experiment in enlightened autocracy spiralled into catastrophe and gives us a new account of the origins of Western political philosophy.
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A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested amidst a bloody civil war

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"An intellectual thriller …. a deft and engaging work of history, philosophy and biography …. Romm relates this history — and introduces readers to a colorful cast of sycophantic courtiers, eccentric philosophers and defiant poets — with flair. He is an equally admirable guide to the many controversies in which the affair is mired."

- Becca Rothfeld - The Washington Post,

"This is a work of history, but it is as compelling as any novel… Romm does a superb job of imaginatively reconstructing the backstory to a philosophical masterpiece."

- Tim Whitmarsh - Literary Review,

"[A] finely sifted story …. includes abundant historical and social context …. Mr. Romm’s portrait of Plato as a scheming, often bumbling political player will be intriguingly new to most readers."

- Timothy Farrington - The Wall Street Journal,

Many people know something of Plato’s works, yet few are familiar with his life outside of his writings. In Plato and the Tyrant, acclaimed classicist James Romm uses a little-known set of Plato’s personal letters to introduce the man behind the ethereal image and to explore the formation of his most famous work, Republic. In the second half of his life, an already famous Plato involved himself in the affairs of the two Dionysii, a father and son who ruled Syracuse, at that time the greatest power in the Greek world. Plato’s interventions in the violent contest between Dionysius the Younger and his brother-in-law, Dion—with whom Plato may have had a long love affair—were the backdrop and perhaps the motivation for his masterwork. In a thrilling narrative, Romm captures how Plato’s experiment in enlightened autocracy spiralled into catastrophe and gives us a new account of the origins of Western political philosophy.
Les mer
A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested amidst a bloody civil war

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781324093183
Publisert
2025-06-24
Utgiver
WW Norton & Co; WW Norton & Co
Vekt
627 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter
Romm James

Om bidragsyterne

James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and editor of the Ancient Lives biography series from Yale University Press. He is the author of several other studies of Greek and Roman history, and his reviews and essays appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Review of Books.

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