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Sophocles Oedipus Rex
This story is one so profound it lives on the tradition of Western political thought as a touchstone. How would we be able to understand Freud's Oedipal complex without this story. It…
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Homer The Odyssey
This is a hero's journey that keeps coming up later in the history of political thought. Borges calls the first metaphor of the book one of the greatest in human history…
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Sophocles Antigone
This tragedy and others performed in front of the demos fulfilled the crucial social and political role of facilitating a catharsis in the audience. Spectating the performance together somehow facilitated…
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Plato, Crito
I read a lot of the classic texts out of this compilationReadings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Thales to Aristotle. United Kingdom: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2016.Except mine was the 1995 edition. The Crito…
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Plato, Euthyphro
This text is usually found in an edition with other dialogues, Euthyphro, Crito, Apology. Watch the Socratic method in action as Socrates and his interlocutors try to arrive at a definition…
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Plato, Apology
Plato. The Dialogues of Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. 3rd ed. 5 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1892The apology is Socrates' defense of himself, his way of life. This…
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Plato, Gorgias
Translated by Zeyl, Donald J. Hackett Publishing, 1987.This dialogue brings up the thorniest questions in Philosophy and is a foundational text in epistemology-- the theory of knowledge -- the attempt…
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Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline
Sallust. Catiline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories. Translated and edited by William W. Batstone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.o.Sallust was a Roman historian and recounts two important stories the Catiline…
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Cicero, In Catilium
Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam 1–4. Pro Murena. Pro Sulla. Pro Flacco, trans./ed. C.MacDonald ([Boston: Loeb Classical Library, 1976)These orations address the issue of Republics in crisis. It brings up the…
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Livy, Histories of Rome
Livy. The Early History of Rome. United Kingdom: Penguin Books Limited, 2005. This text is a cultural treasure with some of the most known stories, such as the birth of Romulus and Remus.The difference…