Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius

[Pelican Press 0]

By the time Plato departed the court of Dionysius the Younger in 361 BC, his relations with the Syracusan autocrat had turned frosty. Plato had spent many months at the court in Sicily over the course of two visits spaced six years apart. He had been pursuing a remarkable goal: to give a notorious tyrant, the most powerful ruler in the Greek world, a philosophic education. But the project had…

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